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The Powers That Be
Chapter 1 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Dexter sat in the back seat of his dad's old beaten down car with his arms crossed and a deep frown on his face. The only thing that helped the situation was that Deedee wasn't there to pester him or push any buttons he didn't want to be pushed. The worst thing that didn't help? He was starting high school and he was sure he would be quite the opposite of popular. He had to seal the book case door to his lab closed so the new home owners wouldn't find it, but he couldn't get rid of the inkling feeling that they would find it anyways. At least he could bring one thing that brought him comfort. He held up a small device with the light bulb and turned it on for a few seconds before pressing the button again to turn it off. A billboard with a tiny old man who seemed overly cheerful read "Welcome to Townsville". Letting out a sigh he yanked at his seat belt. "Why in the world did we have to ever move here?" Dexter muttered as he looked out the window to see a park filled with happy families. "Because dear, you're father's promotion needed him to move here." His mom answered with a sunny smile. "B... but | don't Know anyone here..." Dexter pouted. "Oh I'm sure there are lots of people here that would love to get to know you." his mom answered as she let out a yawn. They parked outside a cream colored house with a dark brown roof. Next door was a strangely shaped white block house. Dexter stood there looking at it as he scratched his head a bit until a slightly loud, but friendly voice interrupted his train of thought. "Hiya neighbor!" A tall, rectangular shaped man shouted as he was trimming some rose bushes. "Umm... hello." Dexter said awkwardly. "Are you and your family just moving in? I'm Professor Utonium." The rectangular man said holding out a hand for Dexter to shake. ‘Oh my Action Hank! I'm living next to a professor!’ Dexter thought to himself anxiously as sweat went down his brow. 'I must not blow this!" "Ah, so you're a professor eh?" Dexter said shaking his hand. "I am Dexter teen genius. It's a pleasure meeting you sir. Do you actually make your living as a-" Dexter stopped mid sentence as he sawa blond haired teen in a tight blue and black dress fly and land right next to the professor. "Wh... what the..." "Hey professor, is it okay if I'm out late tonight?" the blonde girl spoke very girlishly and behaved a lot like his sister Deedee. "We have a ballet performance to rehearse for the show tomorrow if that's Okay." "SO wait a minute, how does she have super powers?" Dexter said aloud as he scratched his head. "Oh my gosh! We have a new neighbor?" the girl squealed in excitement. "I'm Bubbles, a Powerpuff girl. It's nice to meet you." the teen spoke excitedly shaking his hand. Dexter's eyes almost went to her breasts that were bouncing up and down but forced himself not too, remembering what happened last time. "Ah yes, it's nice to meet you too." Dexter said nervously as he shook her hand back. "I'm sure my sisters will be happy that we don't have villains for neighbors anymore." Bubbles sighed happily. Dexter raised an eye brow. "Villains? What kind of villains?" Dexter asked feeling a bit curious now that he was starting to feel less nervous. "Oh a whole family of them, they tried melting your head and broke everything in our house didn't they professor?" Bubbles said looking at the professor. "Heh, yeah they sure did." the professor said tugging at his shirt collar and looking as if he was recalling something that he'd rather forget. "Oh well, at least there aren't as many villains as bad as I've had to face." Dexter waved his hand grateful that at least there was something he wouldn't miss in his old town. "Oh... umm I'm sorry but that's kind of not true here. | don't know what villains you've faced being a normal person and all, but we deal with some pretty bad stuff over here." Bubbles said looking sympathetically at him. "Excuse me sister, but | am Dexter teen genius. There are no criminals smooth enough to handle this." Dexter said as he pointed to his head. "I'm not your sister and you obviously just moved here if you think you've faced off with evil worse than | have." Bubbles huffed with a slight frown at Dexter. "Oh yeah? You wouldn't last a minute in my old city." Dexter snapped. "Dream on!" Bubbles said as Buttercup flew down holding a soccer ball under one of her arms. "Now now you two I'm sure you can both get along since we're neighbors now." Professor said as he finished trimming his yard and set his trimmers down. "| guess it would be silly if we both just kept arguing. Besides we haven't really seen what both of our capabilities are in the crime fighting arena, so friends?" Dexter said as he held out his hand for Bubbles to shake. "Hmm... okay you do have a point." Bubbles said shaking Dexter's hand. "Care to join me for a game of Galaga?" Dexter asked as Bubbles got a confused look on her face. "What's Galaga?" she asked making Dexter's eyes widen and jaw drop. "What the... how... It's only the greatest game of all time!" Dexter said as he took Bubble's hand and lead her into his home. "Dexter! Dinner time" Dexter's mom called out into the front yard. "Yes mother, can my friend come over for dinner too?" Dexter asked his mother politely as he gestured towards Bubbles. "Why sure she can dear. | made meat loaf for dinner tonight." his mom shouted cheerfully. "Professor, would it be okay if | joined my friend for dinner?" Bubbles squeaked cheerfully. "Yes, you two go ahead. I'll save you some left overs if you want them." the professor said as he put away his lawn equipment. As Dexter and Bubbles went inside his new home was already well furnished, clean and tidy just the way mom always liked it. She was clearly germaphobic as she always wore rubber gloves all the time. He just wore the rubber gloves all the time because it made him feel like a real scientist and he didn't like getting chemicals on his hands when doing experiments. "So Bubbles, what do you do for fun?" Dexter asked curiously as they sat at the kitchen table. "| mostly hang around at the mall and my friends. I'm ina cheerleader. What about you? What do you do for fun?" Bubbles chattered cheerfully as Dexter's mind went instantly to his annoying sister's stuffed animal and doll collection. "Oh the usual stuff. On week ends if | don't feel like working on anything scientific I'll head down to the arcade to play a few video games and get a slice of pizza." "Me and my sisters had a video game made after us." Bubbles admitted blushing slightly. At this Dexter almost spit out his drink, but then he quickly swallowed it painfully gulping it down. "You're in a video game? What system is it for?" Dexter asked in amazement. "Playstation two... | think we also had a few games for the gameboy as well?... ah well." Bubbles said as she took a sip of water. "Well I'm glad you two seem to be getting along well because | made a special dessert for our big move here." Dexter's mom said with glee as she set down a warm pie in the middle of the table and set out some bowls. "Who wants apple pie and ice cream?" At this both Dexter's and Bubbles both looked at each other giving a nod of approval. "Oh, I'd love some!" Bubbles said enthusiastically. "I'll help serve the ice cream if you'd like." "That's really nice of you dear but..." Just as Dexter's mom said this Bubbles had scooped out the ice cream and served it in everyone's bowls. "Ah thanks." She finished saying after everyone's eyes went to the size of dinner plates at the feat she just pulled. "Uh so Bubbles how long have you been able to do that." Dexter's mom asked as she sat down to her pie and ice cream. "Ever since | could remember." Bubbles said cheerfully. "It must be cool having super powers." Dexter said as he took the last bite of his pie. "Eh, it's okay but it's a lot of responsibility." Bubbles sighed. "Everyone expects you to save them all the time when something goes wrong." "| guess that would get old after a while." Dexter said giving her a sympathetic smile. “Tomorrow's Saturday and it's still summer vacation. Do you want to do anything tomorrow?" Bubbles asked grinning a bit. "Hmm... go to the library?" Dexter asked giving a slight blush. "Sure, I'll even show you where it is." Bubbles said excitedly. "I need to go soon since the professor's probably waiting on me, but I'll be over first thing in the morning okay?" "Okay, I'll see you tomorrow." Dexter grinned feeling a sense of accomplishment. He finally made his first friend in town and with a girl his age no less. Maybe this big move wasn't such a disaster after all. "Thanks for dinner tonight Mrs. Dexter's mom. It was yummy." Bubbles said as she got up to leave. "Can | help any with the dishes or..." "No no, you just head on home and have a good night dear." Dexter's mom said insistently. "And also you can just call me mom if you want. That's what all Dexter's friends usually do." "Hehe, thanks mom. Good night." Bubbles said as she left and flew over to her house. As she entered the professor was reading the paper. "How did dinner with your new friend go?" The professor asked after taking the smoking pipe out of his mouth. "Oh... it went well." Bubbles said cheerfully as she got herself a drink of water. "That's great dear. You should bring your new friend over for dinner here some time." The professor said enthusiastically. "He seems like a nice kid so I'm not too worried." "Oh professor, you always worry too much." Bubbles said rolling her eyes. "It's my job, I'm your dad." The professor said chuckling a bit as he went back to his paper. "Good night dad." Bubbles said flying up to her room to get a good night's sleep. Laying down in her comfortable bed covered in blue sheets anda lacy blue and white quilt, Bubbles wondered what tomorrow would bring with her new friend as she dozed off into slumber land. To be continued... Chapter 2 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. 10:01 P.M. A text from her cell phone disrupted Bubbles from falling asleep. It was a text from her friend Kimberly wanting to know if they were still rehearsing for the ballet play that would be coming up in a few months. She was about to text her back when the Powerpuff hotline started beeping. Looking out her window she could see Mojo Jojo was once again destroying the city with another giant robot. Going over to Buttercup's bed she shook her awake. "Mojo's at it again, we need to go kick his butt and send him to jail for the fifty millionth time." Bubbles mumbled as Buttercup got up and they flew to the scene of the crime. Blossom was no where to be seen and hadn't been seen much as of late as she claimed to be too busy with school work. Bubbles could see Dexter's shock stricken face as he turned away from his window and ran away. She knew the danger level of the villains in Townsville would prove too much for him. As she got to the scene of the crime Blossom showed up slightly late as usual. "Where have you been sis? The monkey is out of the zoo and he's making a mess again." Buttercup said and she smirked rolling her eyes. "Who knows, he might start throwing his feces at us next." Blossom sighed and rubbed the middle of her forehead as if she's thinking of an excuse. "| was just busy okay?" Blossom blurted out before Buttercup took it in her own hands to kick her soccer ball in Mojo's direction knocking his giant robot on it's back. The "There, problem solved. Now lets take this primate back to his cage." Buttercup said as she caught her ball. "Heh wow Buttercup, you've really gotten good with your kicks." Bubbles said as both her and Blossom's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates. "That's because I've been practicing daily for a year now. Of coarse... I've lost a lot of balls to outer space..." Buttercup said laughing awkwardly. "Only a powerpuff would do that." Bubbles said patting her sister on the back. "But only one Powerpuff can speak to squirrels." Buttercup responded patting Bubbles back harder. "Got me there." Bubbles added slightly in pain. "Hey | got to go take care of something. Can you both take care of Mojo while | take care of business? Thanks, bye." Blossom said and she flew off suddenly. "Jeez, what's been her deal lately?" Buttercup complained as she scratched her head, looking at the pink streak of light her sister left behind. "No idea." Bubbles said as they picked up Mojo's unconscious body and dropped him in prison. "Do you want to go for a quick slice of pizza?" Buttercup said yawning. "Yeah, sure. | could go for a slice." Bubbles said as she looked at her watch. "Wait | need to meet my friends for a ballet recital." "Ah, well I'm off. See ya later." Buttercup said as she flew off. Going to the usual meeting spot at a theater near a cozy coffee shop Bubbles would go to on weekends a tall, dark thin man sat in one of the seats typing away on his laptop. The other actors were already in their places, but something wasn't right. In Bubbles' place was a platinum blonde in her costume. It wasn't just any costume, buta brilliant crystal embroidered blue dress with a tutu sewn together with hundreds of peacock feathers. She sighed realizing she was late one too many times and left for home. As she passed by Dexter's Window she saw a big gaping hole in Dexter's bedroom wall and Dexter sitting closely by putting together a book shelf about the same size as the hole. This did seem strange to her, but since he wasn't technically breaking any laws she simply went into her bedroom, collapsed on her bed and went to sleep. Getting up the next day she thought she'd go take a peak at how Dexter was doing with his project. She could tell the hole in the wall wasn't gone. It was just covered up by the book shelf he was building last night. The thing that puzzled her was how he made such a huge hole in the wall without making a lot of noise. She flew over knocking on Dexter's front door. His mother came and answered it shortly after. "Oh hi Bubbles deary, how are you this morning?" She said as she was mixing pancake batter. "I'm doing well, thank you mom. Is Dexter available?" Bubbles said cheerfully. "Why I'm sure he is. He's probably still up in his room if you two are still planning on heading to the library." his mom answered as she went back to making breakfast. "Okay, thanks." Bubbles said floating up to Dexter's room. She opened the door to Dexter's room with no Dexter in sight. She looked thoughtfully at the book case not knowing if she should move it or not so instead she took her time to look around a bit instead. He seemed awfully tidy for a boy. Every part of his room was spotless. Not even a dust bunny. She guiltily thought of her messy room filled with stuffed animals, nail polish and other girly stuff. Dexter was just coming out from behind his book shelf wiping some oil off of his gloves with a rag when he spotted Bubbles who spotted him coming out of his secret laboratory. She only saw it for a few seconds, but the whole room was filled with all types of technology. "How long have you been here?" Dexter said closing his bookshelf quickly but quietly with eyes as wide as dinner plates. "Umm... only a few minutes." Bubbles said amazed at how fast Dexter worked when no one was looking. "Hmm... how much did you see?" Dexter said raising an eyebrow. "Well... | sort of Saw you starting on it last night... but | didn't think anything of it and went to bed." Bubbles explained. "And kind of some stuff you built as you were shutting the...'ahem’... door." "That's just great..." Dexter sighed. "My secret laboratory is no longer secret now and it's the first day | built it." "That's not true. | didn't think you would be doing anything illegal so | didn't mention it to anyone else." Bubbles said cheerfully. This cheered Dexter up a bit. "Really? Well then can you keep it a secret?" Dexter asked looking at her with hopeful eyes. "Sure, as long as your not taking over the world or robbing banks | don't see what's wrong with it." Bubbles said giggling. "Thank you!" Dexter said hopping over to her giving her a huge hug. "Kids, breakfast is ready!" Dexter's mom called. "Be right down mom!" Dexter called. As they came down and sat at the table Dexter's mom came over with a huge plate of pancakes. "You'll never guess what's for breakfast? Pancakes!" Dexter's mom said as they all went for the maple syrup and dug in. To be continued... Chapter 3 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. After Dexter and Bubbles finished their breakfast they headed outside for a walk to the library. It was hot outside, but it didn't bother Bubbles who was in her usual blue dress. It did however feel strange for her to walk somewhere when she was so used to flying. Dexter still wore his clean cut lab coat, but didn't seem hot in the slightest. Both didn't say much since they were unfamiliar with the other's interests. Standing at the door of the library, leaning against the building was a familiar green face to Bubble's displeasure. It was Ace from the Gangreen Gang. "Hey four eyes, you got your entrance fee?" Ace called out pointing at Dexter as they neared the door. "You know the library is free Ace. Please get out of the way before | have to use force." Bubbles said firmly, but politely. "No, | think I'll stay right here... unless you'd rather ditch the nerd here and share a milkshake with me." Ace said as he tilted his sunglasses winking at Bubbles which made Dexter frown. Bubbles however looked as if she wanted to throw up. "I think you should just chill out man." Dexter said taking out a bright orange and blue ray gun zapping him still as he became trapped in a transparent green block. "Umm... you didn't kill him did you?" Bubbles said as her eyes went to the size of dinner plates. "No, just froze him temporarily in time. He'll be fine after a few hours." Dexter said pushing him aside so they could go in. "Wow... then you must be as smart as my dad!" Bubbles exclaimed grinning. "Heh, | don't know about that." Dexter laughed as they went in and began casually strolling down a shelf a books. Bubbles seemed to be interested in the herbal remedy books while Dexter picked up quite a few chemistry books. It wasn't long before they were both quietly reading at a table in the center of the library. Bubbles couldn't shake the strange feeling they were being watched, but who would be watching them in a library? She dismissed the feeling and went back to her book of herbal remedies coming across a particular page on garlic that caught her eye. It had been ages since Bubbles had come to the library. She was so busy being popular now she didn't take the time aside for such simple a pleasure as reading a book in a library... and yet now here she was with her new neighbor. Blossom came in soon enough and looked over to see Dexter and Bubbles sitting together. "Oh wow, fancy seeing you two here." Blossom said as she returned a few books and came over to them. Dexter didn't look up to see who it was, but he did have a nervous look on his face which caught Bubble's attention. "Hey sis, what's up?" Bubbles said quietly gently placing her book on the table. "Oh not much. Find anything interesting?" Blossom said as Dexter continued hiding his face. "Yeah, I'm reading it right now. | think Dexter's mom wanted him back by noon though so we should really be checking out." Bubbles said nervously. "Ah, alright well I'll catch up to you two later then. See ya." Blossom said as she went to hit the books herself. After they checked out Bubbles and Dexter walked back to their houses to drop off their books. "SO... any reason you were sweating bullets back in the library?" Bubbles said curiously. "Well yeah, your sister... was kind of my study buddy years ago." Dexter said nervous again as he tugged at his collar a bit. "How were you two study buddies if you just moved here?" Bubbles asked raising an eye brow. "Well... | did live here before. | went to pokey oaks kindergarten. Not many people knew me seeing as | mostly kept to myself and my books." Dexter explained. "Hmm..." Bubbles started remembering a red headed glasses wearing boy in her kindergarten class taking a nap. "... Oh wow... So you were in our class!" Bubbles said out loud. "Heh, yep. So what else is new?" Dexter said as they sat on Bubble's front porch. "Miss Keane is now a high school math teacher." Bubbles said sitting on a swinging bench the professor hung from a tree. "Wow really? Then | guess we'll both be learning from her again." Dexter said grinning. "| wish | were better with math." Bubbles said sheepishly. "Aww, well we can go over to my place right now and | can show you some things that | think will help you." Dexter said getting up and holding out his hand to her. Blushing brightly and blinking at his hand she took it, but all the while that feeling they were being watched just wouldn't leave her alone. Neither of them saw the pair of glasses staring at them through the rose bushes as they headed off to a fun afternoon of studying. To be continued... Chapter 4 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Going into Dexter's room he shut his door and tugged on one particular green book on his shelf causing it to open like a door. Bubbles gasped as she saw the many electronic devices he already managed to smuggle into his laboratory. It was like Mojo jojo's lair times ten. "Dexter, how long did it take you to make all this stuff?" Bubbles said as she turned to a monkey sitting in a cage. "All my life, last night | transferred all my old stuff here." Dexter said sitting at his desk. "Wow... you must be like... a genius." Bubbles said this just as she realized what she said was obvious. Dexter didn't seem to mind being called a genius though. "Did anyone else ever know about you having a secret laboratory?" Bubbles asked giving the monkey a banana. "Only one, but that was my sister." Dexter said remembering the disasters she would cause. "Hmm... your lab looks a lot like Mojo Jojo's house." Bubbles said as she admired the giant computer. "Only... you don't go around destroying stuff." "| take it that was the villain you were fighting last night?" Dexter said as he pressed a button having a pot of tea instantly delivered to his desk. "Want some’? It's earl grey." "Yeah, that's him. He's a monkey with a giant brain. He was created the same time we were." Bubbles said thinking back to the good old days when they were still in kindergarten. "We?" Dexter said as he poured them both a cup of tea assuming Bubbles might want a cup even though she didn't say she did. "Me and my sisters. The professor mixed sugar, spice and everything nice into one huge pot, but because Mojo pushed the professor he accidentally added chemical X. The chemical x also fell on Mojo's scalp giving him his giant brain." Bubbles said as she gratefully accepted the tea. "Oh wow..." Dexter said wondering what in the world Chemical X could be made of. "I highly doubt the professor would have a recipe for chemical x written down. That sounds like some powerful stuff if it can give girls super powers and monkeys giant brains." "Ah... now that you mention it | guess | never have seen the recipe for chemical x." Bubbles said amazed she never thought of it before. "Well, if it were made accidentally I'm sure that would be a valid reason as to why he doesn't have a recipe written down." Dexter said scratching his chin thoughtfully. "Huh?" Bubbles said tilting her head confused. "Well if he created it accidentally than he wouldn't know just what the exact combination of ingredients would be or he would have them written down somewhere." Dexter said trying to dumb it down for her as much as he could. To his relief he saw that she was comprehending it. "Hmm... yeah that would make sense." Bubbles said sitting next to Dexter. As Bubbles sat next to Dexter she noticed a pink fog surrounding them. Just as they looked at each other everything went black. Bubbles opened her eyes to what looked like an endless spiraling vortex. There on a distant metallic saucer stood Princess, Mojo jojo, Him and a tall dark boy with glasses she didn't recognize. His laugh was unbearably annoying. Even so annoying that all the rest of the villains looked at him in slight annoyance as well. Suddenly she woke up on a hard, wooden bar floor. Dexter laid unconscious beside her and on her other side was her sister Buttercup. They were all dressed in what looked like peasants clothing from the medieval period in England. Dexter wore a shabby looking suit and her and Buttercup had on well worn dresses. There was a bartender cleaning glasses where drinks were being served and a waiter walked by them looking down upon them as she carried a tray of drinks and food. She turned to Buttercup shaking her shoulder a bit to see if she'd wake up. "Buttercup... are you okay?" Bubbles said quietly not sure where they were. Opening her eyes Buttercup squinted up at Bubbles. "Bubbles? Where are we?" Buttercup asked sitting up looking at her own shabby dress. "Honestly sis | have no clue..." Bubbles said sighing, not knowing what to do. "Before we ended up here | saw Mojo, Him, Princess and some boy with an annoying laugh... it was like | was in a dream though..." "That's weird..." Bubbles said getting up and trying to fly only to fail. "What the... | can't fly." Buttercup mumbled. "Here let me try." Bubbles said standing up and failing as well. "Well crap, | can't fly either." "Uggh, where are we?" Dexter mumbled sitting up as he held his head. "We don't know." Bubbles and Buttercup said in unison. Getting to his feet Dexter stood up and looked around at their surroundings. "Did we go back in time?" Dexter pondered to himself. "It does kind of look like that doesn't it?" Bubbles said looking around as well. "Yep, that must be it." Buttercup said scratching her head looking confused. "But how did we get here?" Suddenly a hooded figure came in and sat down as the bartender cleaned a beer mug just for them. Looking over though they did a double take on Dexter, Bubbles and Buttercup. "Bob, hold that thought on me getting a drink will you?" the hooded figure spoke softly and yet had a direct tone as if every word was a command. "Yes ma'am." the bartender said turning to his next customer. She walked over to them looking at them. They could feel the intense stare from the cloaked figure even though they couldn't see her face. "Why did you come here? Who brought you to this world?" The hooded figure said firmly but softly. She patiently stood waiting for an answer. "W... we don't know how we got here." Bubbles said nervously. "| see, well I'm sure your parents must be deathly worried about you. You should come with me if you want to stay safe." She said looking concerned. "Who are you? And why should we go with you?" Buttercup said looking suspiciously at the hooded figure. "Because... I'm one of you." The hooded figure pulled off her cloak to reveal a platinum haired girl in a white dress with a black stripe in the middle that looked similar to what her and her sisters wore. "I'm Bell..." To Be Continued... Chapter 5 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. The sky was cloudy, but still let in sunshine as Dexter, Bubbles, Buttercup and Bell had left the pub. There was no sidewalk for them to step on, only one giant solid brick street. The wealthiest looking citizens were riding in carriages drawn by horses and not a single high tech gadget was in sight. Without his precious gadgets to come to his aid Dexter looked as lost as lamb in the woods. Bubbles and Buttercup on the other hand didn't look to happy about "hoofing it" either as they were used to flying. Bell seemed strangely content to walk. "| have a hide out where we can stay." Bell said wearily. "Awesome, does it have electricity?" Dexter asked hopefully. "No... I'm afraid not." Bell said scratching her head at his question. "But... but... then what technology is there?" Dexter said scowling. "Mediocre at best. We're in the 1800's time period." Bell answered shortly as they turned down another road. "Uggh... then... no computers..." Dexter said looking depressed. He looked as though he wanted to cry. Just then a familiar expensive looking limousine drove up next. The window rolled down and in the passenger's seat was none other than Princess. She wore an elegant, royal gown that fit her form tightly showing off her curves. Bell looked slightly alarmed to see her, but Dexter could tell Buttercup and Bubbles were shocked beyond words. He turned to the limo raising an eyebrow thinking "What would something like this be doing in the 1800's?' "Just so you guys know, we're going to get the recipe for chemical x and there's nothing you can do to stop us." Princess said in her usual snobbish tone. "Oh and Bell... seeing these losers... have you changed your mind yet? Are you ready to join the winning team?" "You are a fool Princess. You're band of criminals are never going to figure out what chemical x is actually made of." Bell scowled up at Princess. "It's fine, you haven't seen them fail without their powers like | have. I'll still give you a little more time to... think things over." Princess said as she rolled up her window and the limo zoomed out of sight toward a giant castle. "They're trying to unlock the secret to Professor Utonium's version of chemical x. They want to use it... for their own greed.” Bell said frowning up at the castle. "Since it's almost the end of Princess’ shift we should hurry." Still confused they all ran after Bell who ran down an alley way. At the end was a brick wall, but strangely they were able to walk through the wall to find a luxuriously furnished home. Dexter, Bubbles and Buttercup all looked at each other confused. "Umm... Bell? How did you make a home inside a wall? | thought you said no high technology existed here." Bubbles asked scratching her head in confusion. "This world isn't real. It's a digital world of fiction they created to contain us." Bell said looking as if she were going to cry. "That's why you Buttercup and Bubbles don't have your powers. They create all the rules in the coding of this place." "But... that would mean there's technology all around us." Dexter said in awe. "If this is actually a digital world how did we get in here?" "They hooked up some very advanced wiring to your brains and bodies to make it seem like you were in this world. In the real world you're bodies are unconscious. In other words it's like we're all having a dream and we're having it together. They needed to put you all in an unconscious state so they could extract unlimited samples from you till they could figure out what the recipe for chemical x is." "This is not good." Buttercup said sitting on the floor punching it repeatedly, not caring if it hurt now. "Hmm... there has to be a way for us to wake up." Dexter said pacing. "If they figure out the recipe, they're obviously going to use it for ill gotten gains." "You said it, but there are four of us and four of them so it's an even match." Bubbles said falling back into a sofa. "Hmm, which villains decided to team up together this time?" Buttercup said laying down on the floor as she looked up at Bubbles. "Well... before | woke up | saw them on a strange platform thing. There was Him... Mojo Jojo... Princess... and some weird tall kid in glasses. He had the nastiest, greasiest hair I've ever seen and a really annoying laugh." Bubbles said thinking hard to recall everything she had seen. "Wait... really annoying laugh and black, greasy hair?" Dexter said as his eyes widened at his own horror. "And he was really tall too?" "Yeah, and really thin and lanky." Bubbles said raising her eye brows at Dexter. "Do you know him?" "Do | know him? That's Mandark! He's my arch rival." Dexter said frowning deeply. "Now | know how they were able to make this fictional prison world for our minds. Only he could make something this devious." "Wow... | didn't know Townsville bad guys had the balls to look out of town for help." Buttercup said getting up on the sofa next to Bubbles. "Well guess you know now." Dexter said sighing. "The only way out of this is to find a way to wake our real bodies up." "| know a way to wake your real bodies up." Bell said leaning on the wall, looking up at the ceiling. "But... it will require a lot of sneaking around." "Could you tell us how we can wake up anyways? At least if we give ita shot we can say we gave it a try." Bubbles said patiently. "In the royal vault there's red potion that will wake any real human up if they drink just a tea spoon of it. It's really well guarded though." Bell said looking at Bubbles, Buttercup and Dexter. "Would you all be willing to take the risks necessary to get to the potion?" "I'm willing." Bubbles said standing up taking Bell's hand in hers. "In that case me too." Butter cup said standing next to her taking Bubble's hand in hers. "You girls will need protecting so I'm in." Dexter said taking hold of Buttercup and Bell's hands. Holding hands in unison and looking each other in the eyes they silently agreed to protect each other and help each other escape their new prison. To be continued... Chapter 6 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. The hidden home Dexter, Bubbles, Buttercup and Bell had settled into had several rooms. It had so many that you could get lost if you weren't careful. That didn't matter to Dexter though who was steadily searching for a library. Buttercup tagged along so she could finda kitchen. Since she was constantly active with the soccer team she ate much more than Blossom or Bubbles. A growl escaped from her stomach. "Don't worry, | think we found the kitchen." Dexter pointed to a pair of double doors. The doors had tiny windows which shown a refrigerator inside. "Thank God!" Buttercup said rushing inside to open up the refrigerator. "FUUUUUUUUUU..." "What's wrong?" Dexter said walking up the the refrigerator. Inside was a very well organized "grocery store" of ingrediants, but nothing already cooked. Sighing Buttercup took an apple and leaned against the counter eating it. "| don't know how to cook." Replied Buttercup with a grumpy face. Dexter chuckled and held the refrigerator door open looking at what ingredients they had to work with. "Well, | can teach you how." Dexter said picking through the ingredients he had to choose from. "Umm... that may not be wise..." Buttercup said nervously looking the other direction. "Why is that?" Dexter asked as he got out a cutting board and began skillfully dicing up an onion. "Well, when it comes to cooking | suck." Buttercup said looking intimidated at Dexter's handling of the giant chef's knife. "The last time | tried to cook | messed up badly and no one wanted to eat it." "Then that's an even better reason why you need to learn how to do it." Dexter gave her a small grin and took out some carrots. "Besides, cooking is simply the combination of chemicals the human body needs to sustain itself." Patiently he showed her how to peel one of the carrots using a potato peeler. Soon Buttercup was peeling the carrots at light speed. Dexter put the onions in a bowl and began dicing up celery. Looking over he gasped at how fast Buttercup had gotten the carrots peeled than smiled. "Well | guess we should dice the carrots now." Dexter said with a small smile. "Do you feel comfortable trying?" "Umm..." Buttercup looked at the knife timidly. Beating up bad guys with knives was one thing, but actually using the knives to make something was quite another. "... | don't know." "It's easy, I'll show you." Dexter said as he took a sack of rice filling a rice cooker with the right amounts of rice and water. He then tooka few carrots gingerly from Buttercup's hand. He laid the carrots onto the cutting board and began to smoothly run the knife vertically over each one chopping them in half, then sliced them skillfully into half rings. "Wow, how long have you been cooking?" Buttercup asked watching Dexter grab a few more carrots. "Technically since | was six and got into chemistry." Dexter said as he put down the knife and stepped aside for Buttercup to take over. Buttercup stepped toward the cutting board anxiously and started dicing the carrots up the same way Dexter showed her how. "You're doing a great job, keep it up." Dexter said getting outa pound of chicken. Buttercup grinned and kept going as Dexter took out a wok putting olive oil into it as he turned the stove on medium high. He put the garlic, onion and celery in stirring them constantly adding the seasonings as well. Taking a package of chicken out he quickly diced it adding it to the pan searing it. Finding curry he added a good portion of that and then some water. "We need the carrots and potatoes." Dexter said to Buttercup. "I'm on it." Buttercup grinned adding the diced potatoes and carrots to the pan as Dexter stirred it. "We'll need to let this cook until the potatoes are done, but that shouldn't take too long." Dexter said as he turned the temperature down the medium low. "Oh man, | can't wait!" Buttercup said as a bit of drool came out of the side of her mouth. "Let's set the table so everyone can eat when it's done." Dexter chuckled a bit as he gave the curry one last stir. They set the table getting out plates, silverware and cups. "I'm sure Bell and Bubbles are probably hungry too. Do you want to call them to the table?" Dexter asked. "Oh! Sure, I'll go get them." Buttercup said as she instinctively leapt into the air, but forgot she couldn't fly as she landed on her face. Dexter just blinked as he scratched his head, then offered to help her up. "Are you okay?" Dexter asked her with a concerned tone in his voice. "Yeah... it's just I'm so used to being able to fly." Buttercup said rubbing her cheek. "How can you stand to walk so much?" "| guess the same way you stand to fly all the time. You just get used to it." Dexter said with a sympathetic smile. Buttercup went to get the other two Powerpuffs as Dexter set the table. They soon came back with Buttercup's guidance. Bell and Bubbles both looked around the kitchen curiously. "Wow... how did you guys find this place?" Bell said taking a seat. "Oh we just wondered around till we found it." Dexter said serving all the girls at the table. "And I've been eating from a vending machine this whole time." Belle sighed looking at the food. "What is this anyways?" "It's Curry, me and Buttercup made it." Dexter said enthusiastically giving Buttercup and thumbs up. Buttercup responded with a grin. "Well, it looks good." Bubbles said placing a napkin on her lap. All of them brought their spoons to their mouths. "Oh wow, this is good!" Bubbles said enthusiastically. "Yeah, you two make a good team in the kitchen." Bell said after taking a few bites. "Heh... In all honesty | think Dexter did most of the work." Buttercup said humbly. "I just sort of helped cut up vegetables." "Hey now, that's still a good amount of the work." Dexter said winking at Buttercup. "Yeah, so what are we doing after we eat?" Buttercup said. "| guess we can go find the library. There has to be a map of this place." Dexter said before blowing on his curry to cool it off some more. "I've never seen a library in here before, but you did find this kitchen so I'll help too." Bell said mixing her rice and curry together. "And l'Il help too." Bubbles chirped in happily. "You won't be doing anything like that." a demonic voice came out of no where as the room turned a reddish color and one of the walls looked like the fuzzy screen you get when you're television isn't picking up a signal. "In fact... you won't be doing anything at all when I'm through with you." Him appeared on the wall with that same fuzzy television screen the the background. "| hope you are all enjoying your meal because this is your last supper." Him cackled madly. Dexter looked at Bubbles' and Buttercup's scared reactions to Bell's confused and terrified one and then turned to glare at the red strangely dressed man. "Who gave you the right to terrorize us like this?" Dexter said walking up to Him as he started to scowl. "Who says | need anyone's permission to do what | very damn well feel like doing?" Him said with a smirk as his claw came out of the wall grabbing Bell by the waist, forcing her into the wall with him. She immediately started hyperventilating and started trying to slip out of him's grasp only for Him to tighten his grip on her. "What the... GIVE BELL BACK!" Dexter shouted pounding on the wall in vein. "Why should | give the perfect girl formula back to you three stooges?" Him chuckled. "Oh, I've been looking for her." Him said menacingly as he licked her cheek as tears started streaming down her face. "What the... perfect girl formula?... GIVE HER BACK!" Dexter shouted. "She's a living human being. She deserves her freedom and not to get molested by the likes of you." "She's sugar, spice and everything nice. That's all Powerpuff girls are. They are 'Simply the combination of chemicals the human body needs to sustain itself'." Him said looking up Bell's dress now. Dexter gasped at his words and glared at him peeking up her dress as a Shiver went up his spine. Was he spying on them the whole time? "| need to go now, but | thought | might return this to you." Him made a beckoning movement with one claw as he held onto Bell with the other. "Come to daddy, that's it. Good girl." Blossom came up to him in her usual pink and black dress, only she wore a pair of stylish sunglasses that matched her dress perfectly. "Yes master, what would you like me to help you with?" Blossom said in a monotone voice. "I'd like for you to kill the Powerpuff girls." Him said cheerfully. "Okay, where are they?" Blossom said in the same monotone voice. "I'll take you to them, they're wearing blue and green." Him said delighted. Pushing her out of the wall and into the kitchen Blossom took a good look at both Bubbles and Buttercup who were still slightly frozen in fear as she started to fly. "Oh shit." Dexter muttered as he grabbed both Buttercup and Bubbles, forcing them to leave the room quickly. "We have to get the hell out of here." Dexter said forcing them to make a bee line to the outside. He pushed Bubbles, Buttercup and himself into a dumpster in time to hear the brainwashed puff fly by. Bubbles was sobbing softly and all Dexter could do was to shh and comfort her. He wrapped his arms around her lovingly as the stench of yesterday's pizza filled their nostrils. To be continued... Chapter 7 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. The stench of old pizza couldn't be escaped as Dexter, Buttercup and Bubbles stayed as still as possible so Blossom wouldn't hear them. Bubbles eyes were swollen from crying and Buttercup sat in the corner glaring at a rotten sardine pizza. It was obvious they couldn't stand the smell, but they couldn't leave either because of Blossom. Dexter had some how found a permanent marker and started sketching out what looked like an escape plan. "We're going to need to find a new hiding place. This one is not going to work forever." Dexter mumbled softly. "Eventually someone is going to take out the trash." "Yeah? Well you're the human and we're just the chemicals fused together into something that resembles humans." Buttercup whispered bitterly. "Now that was uncalled for." Dexter whispered back a little angrily. "|... just wanna... go hoooome." Bubbles squeaked sobbing softly. "We have to be patient. I'm working out a way to get us out of this mess." Dexter whispered softly hugging Bubbles close to him once again. She looked as if she'd given up all hope. "I'm not top of my class... or a great athlete... or even smart for that matter. How would someone like me be able to get through a problem like this?" Bubbles sobbed softly. "And on top of that how are we supposed to save Blossom if she's trying to kill us?" "Now you listen here..." Dexter whispered to Bubbles cupping her cheek in his hand as she looked up at him. "We're going to escape this prison and save your sister and Belle. Now give me a smile." Slowly she wiped away the tears and smiled softly up at Dexter. Dexter crept over to the opening of the dumpster lid to find that the night time stars were starting to appear. "Good, | want you to stay positive. | think we're safe to leave, but I'll go ahead and check anyways." Dexter said to Bubbles and Buttercup. "We need to check more alley ways for a new hiding place. We're not staying in another dumpster if | can help it." "Great, what will the next hiding place be? Perhaps a cardboard box or underneath a residents house?" Buttercup said sarcastically making Dexter turn around towards Buttercup. He focused his blue eyes to her green ones with intense annoyance. "You know... you really shouldn't let what that guy told you get to you." Dexter said patiently, but firmly. "I Know you're upset because he used my words to insult you, but if you let him get you upset like you are now you're letting him win." Buttercup just sighed and smiled sheepishly. "You know... | guess you're right." Buttercup said climbing out of the dumpster. Dexter and Bubbles soon followed after. And so they began their long walk through neighborhood after neighborhood feeling any wall that could also be a secret house, but in the end they found nothing. "Great, what are we going to do now?" Dexter sighed hate not knowing the answer to any problem. "That's easy, we walk to the nearest wooded area and set up camp." Buttercup said as she let out a yawn. "Yeah, but | don't know anything about camping." Dexter mumbled sadly. Guess he should have gone camping with his sister instead of hanging out at anime conventions. "| don't know anything about camping either." Bubbles said nervously. "Oh gosh you guys are pansies. Well don't worry since | know everything there is to know about surviving in the woods. Just follow me." Buttercup said as she lead the way. "We don't have any real camping gear, so we'll have to rely on nature to provide us the things we need.” At this Bubbles and Dexter's eyes grew wide with fear. Buttercup looked back at them and laughed. "Oh come on you guys, you're not going to die from harvesting some sticks and berries and catching fish." Buttercup said as they neared a Cluster of trees. "Umm... maybe we will." Dexter said timidly. "The forest is filled with all types of germs and bacteria... you just never know." Just then a purple rabbit came from out of hiding and stared at them, staying as still as a statue. "See that? We're already coming across wild life we can hunt for dinner." Buttercup said cheerfully. "I just need to craft a bow and arrow." "What if it's poisonous? Normal rabbits are not purple." Dexter said as he straightened his glasses getting a better look at it. "Well this is a digital world right? What if the programmer just wanted the rabbits to be purple?" Buttercup said rolling her eyes a little. "Ah... yes | Suppose you do make a valid point." Dexter said as they walked deep into the woods. There were squirrels which looked normal all over the place and a few deer that could only be seen from far away. "Here's a good spot to build a shelter." Buttercup said as they entered a clearing. "What can we possibly build a shelter out of?" Dexter sighed. "Easy, sticks and leaves. We're going to be building a debris shelter." Buttercup said as she started breaking limbs off of a nearby tree. "Okay, I'll help too." Bubbles said as she walked over and started Snapping off sticks as well. "Oh alright... | guess I'll help too." Dexter said as he started picking up twigs off to build a fire. Bringing back a pile of twigs Dexter set them up in preparation for a camp fire. Buttercup had already started building the frames for three shelters. "Good, we'll have a way to cook our dinner tonight." Buttercup said as she started setting up a spit to roast meat on. "Wait, | thought you couldn't cook." Dexter said raising an eyebrow as he pointed at the spit. "| Can prepare and roast dead animals over a fire. That's pretty much it." Buttercup said smiling sheepishly as she scratched the back of her head. "I'm baack!" Bubbles said carrying some more sticks with her. "Great, | can start making us bows and arrows to catch our pray." Buttercup said enthusiastically taking out a sharp rock she had found. Just as she started carving one of the sticks into a spear Blossom flew down to them staring at them as if she were analyzing her targets. Quickly and effortlessly she flew for Buttercup punching her so hard she slammed through several branches. She only stopped when she hit a large tree and went unconscious. Blossom's expression was still as blank as an empty sheet of paper. Behind her walked Mandark who held in a remote in his hands. His facial expression went into a smirk as soon as he saw Dexter. Mandark played with the buttons a bit making Blossom turn to face Dexter who at this point looked horrified. "Mandark! What the hell are you doing controlling other people like that?!" Dexter said so angrily his face began turning a bright red. "It's an invention | created to help people focus on the tasks their assigned to. | did humanity a favor when | invented this because now they won't ever have to worry about being distracted from their work." Mandark said with an evil grin. "That is utterly the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard you say. You're basically transforming them into slaves!" Dexter said in disgust. "What's wrong with making stupid people into slaves? They won't be helpful to their species otherwise." Mandark said making Blossom slowly started to walk in his direction. Under her rose colored sunglasses he could see the dormant look in her eyes making his heart sink. "You're wrong Mandark... you Know why?" Dexter said as he started backing away slowly. "Oh? Enlighten me on why | am wrong Dorkster boy without a lab." Mandark said cockily. "The reason for living isn't progress. It's spending the time you have with the people you love and care about... but | guess you wouldn't know how to do that would you?" Dexter said making Mandark frown deeply. "Who says? | did love your sister at one point didn't I?" Mandark spat back. "Yes, but she could never love you back because deep down you're a power hungry criminal and the only thing you care about is controlling of everything around you. My sister is a creative free spirit. Something you could never be even with the parents you were born with." Dexter said this as he looked toward where Buttercup had flown to, but was shocked to find her missing. In her place was a purple rabbit. Dexter looked back at Mandark to see a face of rage that surpassed any form of anger he'd seen before. He had crossed the line with the last thing he had said and he knew that he would soon be in a world of pain. Mandark mashed at the buttons of his remote control sending Blossom lunging into him giving him punch after punch to his stomach and face. Bubbles was now no where in sight either. Blossom caught his punch karate chopping his forearm breaking it. A cry of agony escaped his lips, hot tears steaming down his face. Suddenly Blossom gave him the same type of punch she gave Buttercup sending him into a tree. Shuddering in pain Dexter struggled to get to his feet making Mandark grin evilly once more. "HA HA HA, HA HA HA HA HA!" Mandark laughed in his usual annoying way. He was laughing so hard at Dexter's broken arm, which was dangling awkwardly now, that he wasn't paying attention as a hole opened under Dexter's feet and he fell out of sight only to have the ground close back up above his head. He landed on something soft and fluffy to his relief. He was in too much pain to move, but could see a lighted torch coming towards him. He was in too much pain to worry or care about that though as his mind shut down and his world turned black. To be continued... Chapter 8 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Author's Note Rambling Thingy Mabob: After I've reached a final ending with this fanfiction I've been pondering on whether or not to make a sequel. | don't particularly have any ideas for one that | would use at this time, but I'm always getting new ideas about all types of things (not just fanfiction) so | may come across one that | like. | think after this one though I'm definitely going to do something with the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Anyways, enough about me running my mouth an on with the next chapter. | hope you've enjoyed reading it as much as I've enjoyed writing it. Chapter 8 Dexter opened his eyes to see he was underwater in the clear blue ocean. The sun shined through brightly to where he was on the ocean floor. Strangely he was able to breath just fine even though he was no where near the surface. He decided to swim up the the surface right away. As he reached the surface he looked back down into the ocean. There were no dangers there. Just several schools of goldfish swimming by. He grinned loving just how calming their presence could be. Still... it was unusual to see goldfish in the ocean. Weren't they supposed to be freshwater fish? Suddenly he realized he was beginning to float out of the water and into the air just like the Powerpuff girls. Smiling at his new found ability he flew higher and higher into the sky. As he looked up and saw the planet Mars looming over as if it had replaced the moon. As he became even more confused as to why one of the planets moved he began feeling as if he were underwater again. Suddenly he woke up and he was underwater! He had a mask with oxygen so he could breath. Bubbles, Buttercup and a girl in purple with a dress similar to theirs sat at a table near by keeping an eye on him which he was thankful for. Moving his arm he noticed it was no longer broken to his greatest surprise. The girl in purple noticed he woke up first and got up to look at him more closely, examining him like a science project. She looked as though see were thinking deeply for a second before pressing some buttons that made the fluid drain out of the chamber he was in. He then looked down and noticed the only thing he was wearing was a pair of swim trunks! Had they actually seen him naked? Dexter blushed at the thought. The girl in purple then proceeded to open the glass door to let him out. "Greetings Dexter, teen genius. I've heard a great deal about you." Said the girl politely. "Oh... umm really?" Dexter said awkwardly scratching the back of his head. "Oh yes, by the way my name is Bunny." said the girl as she went over to press a button on the table. Seconds later a left over turkey sandwich appeared and she handed it to Dexter. "Thank you Bunny, this looks delicious." Dexter said biting into it. "Oh, it gets old eventually. Trust me! I've been eating those things for a year. If | ever get out of here I'm never eating another turkey sandwich as long as | live." Bunny said laughing a bit. "Can't you program the button to make you other foods?" Dexter asked looking concerned and forgetting he was half naked. "The last time | tried it spat out nothing but steamed brussel sprouts for a month. Do you know what it's like eating nothing but brussel sprouts for a whole entire month?" Bunny said crinkling her nose in disgust. "Eww! | don't want to find out." Buttercup said getting herself a sandwich. "Yeah, me either." Bubbles admitted. "We had to strip you and put you in a healing chamber... well because you're arm was broken." Bunny said as she sat down and Sipped a cup of tea. "Oh God... couldn't you just put me in fully clothed?" Dexter said as his face turned red. Bubbles cheeks also turned a rosy color as well. "No, if | did that you wouldn't have healed properly." Bunny said as she smirked just a bit. "| may not have as many super powers as the other Powerpuff Girls in the real world, but if there are two things I'm good at it's healing and hiding. "| still can't believe someone actually recreated you after me, Buttercup and Blossom failed so miserably with you the first time." Bubbles sighed sadly. "I'm not the same Bunny as the one you made though. | probably would have shared similarities with her, but Mandark was the one who perfected that recipe. | worked as his lacky for some time... but | just wasn't Bell." Bunny explained. "So why are you here then?" Buttercup asked through a mouth full of sandwich. "| hacked into this place so | could find out what the Quartet of Conquest has been planning. | wish | could have saved Bell since she's a key to their success." Bunny explained. "Basically they want to kill off man kind as we know it and breed a special type of human that would be obedient of their every command. They just want a planet of slaves to control.” "That's sick... and it's also Mandark." Dexter said with a face of disgust. "We can still stop them if you're willing to help." Bunny said looking at all of them. "And yes, we'll also rescue Bell and Blossom. We wouldn't be the Powerpuff girls without them." "Well I'm in." Buttercup said getting another sandwich. "I'm in too!" Bubbles chirped. "Well... me too... but can | please have my clothing back first?" Dexter said hopefully. "Okay, just head down the hall and it should be the seventh door on the right." Bunny said giving a slight yawn. "After you get dressed just keep going down the hall till you're in the computer room." “Thanks! Good to know you didn't just cut them off me like they do at the hospital." Dexter said getting up to walk down the long hallway. Opening the door he found a cozy looking bedroom that looked like something his grandmother would put together. On the bed he found his clothing neatly folded. Getting dressed he went to the computer room where all three powerpuffs had already walked to. Bunny was sitting at a giant computer monitor typing away. A thought hit Dexter as he entered. "Welcome back." Bunny said as she turned around in her wheeled chair. "Seeing as we've all lost any or all fighting abilities we had, we're going to have to do some retraining." "Will we actually have the opportunity to train in peace though? They've already hacked into our last hiding place and stole Bell from us." Dexter said feeling guilty that he couldn't save her. "What makes this time any different?" "They've tried several times to hack into my rabbit holes, but my security is more tight than they can compete with. | really wish | knew Bell or you guys were here so | could have helped you earlier." Bunny said with a sigh. "You're kidding, do you mean to say this place has a fire wall built over it?" Dexter said in awe. "It's a digital world so it was easy to find a way to do it." Bunny said nodding. "I also have a map of this whole world." "Really? You wouldn't have a map of their castle would you?" Dexter asked curiously. "Yes, as a matter of fact | do." Bunny said as she turned to her computer and opened the map of the castle up. "Wow... how'd you get that?" Buttercup said gasping in disbelief. "| managed to find it when | was hacking into their database. You can find any type of information you want to know if you hold the right keys to the right places... or rather if you can break into the right places." Bunny said yawning a bit. "That's true... but we'll still have to find out what the perfect time is to be sneaking around so we can get Bell and Blossom back." Bubbles said drawing on a napkin she had found. "I'm not arguing with that. We do need to find out the schedule though." Bunny said. "And that means l'Il have another grueling month of digging through information." "But we may not have that much time!" Buttercup said angrily. "Step aside ladies and watch a pro at work." Dexter said walking up to Bunny's chair as he cracked his knuckles. "You can hack too?" Bunny said getting up in surprise. "I've only been doing it my whole life." Dexter said confidently taking the chair before Bunny could sit back down. "Give me at the most two hours and I'll have your time schedule." Dexter took one look at the computer screen and knew he was going to have a challenge ahead of him. As Dexter opened up the source code for the world he thought to himself "Well at least it's written mostly in C++.' as he scrolled through the seemingly endless amounts of text. After a while of fruitless progress Bubbles came up beside him setting a hot cup of tea nearby. "Thanks..." Dexter said turning around looking at Bubbles. Even though she was smiling softly Dexter could tell she was worried. He took her hands in his looking at her lovingly. "Don't worry okay? We're going to find Bell AND Blossom. | promise." "Thank you... so much." Bubbles spoke softly and before Dexter could stop her she kissed him softly on his lips. He responded by wrapping his arms around her waist, standing up as he kissed her back as his cheeks turned a burning red. The kiss seemed to last forever and he didn't want it to end, but he knew that it would as their lips parted. They looked into each other's eyes and Bubbles cheeks had turned just as red as his. "| have to be honest with you... I'm not really experienced in this... well romantic stuff." Dexter said nervously. "Neither am |." Bubbles said with a soft smile. "As much as | hate to do this... | have to get back to work so we can save your sisters." Dexter said letting a gloved hand stroke her golden locks lovingly. "Yeah... | understand..." Bubbles said as they let go and Dexter went back to work. He wasn't sure if he would find a schedule or not, but giving up would never be the option he would choose. In his mind life was like math, for every problem there would always be a solution to find. If there wasn't a solution to be found he would simply have to make one. To be continued... Chapter 9 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Bubbles, Buttercup and Bunny sat around a table taking turns playing checkers to pass the time as Dexter busily searched his way through the matrix prison database. "I'm afraid we won't be able to get a map because there is no map to be gotten. It's programmed in a way that only shows bits and pieces of what the maps are made of without specifying which order they've been coded to be located at." Dexter said with a sigh as he scratched the back of his head. "Are there any other options?" Bunny asked as she moved one of her checkers pieces. "There are, but | need to find the coding attached to our persons before we can move forward." Dexter said turning toward Bunny before standing up and walking to the turkey sandwich vending button. "I need a snack." "He's going to get tired of those things way faster if he keeps it up." Bunny said only to look down with a face of terror as Buttercup triple jumped three of her pieces. "How the crud...?" "Art of warfare my dear." Buttercup said with a smirk. "At least you're staying in the game longer than me." Bubbles said humbly. "Most people can't beat Buttercup at checkers." Dexter came back eating his sandwich like he hadn't eaten the whole day. As Dexter sat down he began looking once again. "Is there anything fun to do besides checkers?" Bubbles asked looking bored. "There is an endless crossword puzzle you can do, but that gets boring fast too." Bunny said sighing. "I'd rather dig a ditch than play another game of checkers." Whined Bubbles. "Come over here and help me then." Dexter said to Bubbles patting a chair next to him. Bubbles went over and sat by him, but gasped as she looked up at the screen filled with nothing but coding. "Do you see that?" Dexter said pointing at some coding. "That particular section is the coding that says what you can and can not do." Bubbles looked where he was pointing to wishing she knew more about what she was trying to read. In one line of coding he was typing what looked like utter complete nonsense to her. He then proceeded to search to edit a few more lines of coding after that and opted to save. "Try flying everyone." Dexter said as he stood from his seat and began to fly around the room himself. 'Wow... so this is what it's like.’ Dexter thought only having flown in his dreams. Bunny, Bubbles and Buttercup all began to fly without difficulties as well. "| coded things so everyone should have the same amount of powers." Dexter said testing out his own punch. "Do you think it'll give us a fair shot? There are four of them plus Blossom." Buttercup said as she began looking like she was ready to fight. "| couldn't turn off Blossom's powers without the quartet noticing... so yeah we're looking at a challenge." Dexter said as they started Sparring. "The only option we'll have is to pick them off one at a time together." "It sounds underhanded, but | guess that's the only way we're going to win." Buttercup said frowning slightly. "It looks like we're as ready as we'll ever be. Let's go and hunt our first target." Dexter said turning to Bunny. "So how do we get out of here?" "Follow me." Bunny said leading them up to a tunnel and outside. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when they looked around flying up above a cloud, but there seemed to be an eerie silence that none of them could seem to shake. They looked over to the castle which now seemed more menacing than ever. Suddenly the buildings were flattened to the ground like a sheet of paper and walls started to rise all around them. "OH MY GOD THEY KILLED ALL THEIR CITIZENS!" Bubbles shreaked. "Relax, those were probably just NPC's programmed to serve them." Dexter explained calmly. The walls rose around them leaving them inside a room with four exits. Suddenly Mandark showed up on one of the walls laughing his usual annoying laugh. Blossom sat rather stiffly on his lap as if she were a giant action figure. Mojo Jojo sat in the background typing on a laptop. "Ah hahaha, AH HA HA HA HAAA! You foolish fools! Do you think programming a few useless powers will stop us from getting the perfect formula for our perfect race?" Mandark said menacingly. "The idea of a ‘perfect race’ is sickening. You're no better than Adolf Hitler!" Dexter said frowning deeply and looking disgusted as Mandark wrapped his hands around Blossom's waist pulling her closer. "YOU GET YOUR CRUMMY ASS NERD HANDS OFF MY SISTER!" Buttercup yelled glaring at Mandark. "No offense Dexter." "None taken." Dexter said frowning in deep disgust. "What have you done to our sister?" Bubbles said more calmly, but equally as angry. "Oh, the question you should really be asking is what haven't | done?" Mandark said smirking as he dug his nose deep into Blossom's hair, smelling it deeply. "I'm not surprised you would stoop so low Mandark... after all no one with a free will would want someone like you." Bunny said smirking. "Oh, it's you." Mandark said coldly to Bunny. "I didn't see you since you're always hiding in holes and never facing the situations you're dealt with." "I'll admit hiding like a coward isn't honorable, but using people like tools is far worse." Bunny retorted. Smirking maliciously Mandark began sliding his hand up and down Blossom's thigh, close the her skirt making them all feel more uncomfortable and sickened. "| may use people, but | get what | want and | want you all dead. If you don't make it out of that maze in the next hour to the castle all the rooms will shrink down until your bodies implode... and then you'll be dead of coarse." Mandark said smirking evilly. "Why didn't you just kill us off quickly when you had the chance instead of playing these stupid games with us?" Dexter asked annoyed. "Why not? Me and my companions love seeing you idiots suffer." Mandark chuckled beaming with a type of glee that you might see on a rabid dog. Mojo however looked quite stressed and scared for his life typing even more quickly. Taking a deep breath Dexter turned to the Powerpuffs looking them all in the eyes. They had a look of terror and sadness on their faces Dexter only knew too well. "We can save them..." Dexter said keeping his voice soft and loving. "... But the only way that will happen is if we save ourselves. Let's go solve this maze." They nodded and Bubbles flew to him hugging him tightly. Dexter responded by hugging her back tightly, kissing her deeply and lovingly. The sight of this was visually making Mandark angry as his face was turning as red as the sun. He turned his screen off and there was nothing left, but a confusing maze that looked similar to a Rubix cube. "Okay, the only way out of this is with speed and logic. If we remember the general location of the castle we'll at least stand a chance." Dexter said looking deeply in thought. "We were facing the castle all along so we'll want to go into the door on the wall Mandark was just on." The others nodded and followed him several rooms forward. By the twentieth room Dexter stopped in midair and held his hand out for them to stop. "Now we need to find a way down. | think any further and we'll pass it." Dexter said looking for a door in the floor. "How can we go down without a door?" Buttercup said landing on the bottom of the room and then stomping one of her feet up and down. "Duh you guys!" Bubbles said as she started using her laser vision to cut a hole in the floor. "Why was | not the first to think of that?" Dexter said face palming. "Don't worry, you're not really that familiar with our powers so how could you know?" Bubbles said a they turned and started burning their way through room after room. After about thirty rooms Dexter stopped them once again. "| think we need to start moving forward once again." Dexter said nervously looking at how small the rooms had gotten. "We have to speed up even more if we're going to have any shot of getting out of here." "Yeah... | like you guys and all, but | need my personal space." Bunny said looking around nervously as well. Going forward once more they eventually reached a brick wall. The rooms were now as big as broom closets making it impossible for them to all fit in one room comfortably. "Can we break through the wall?" Bunny asked nervously as she watched the walls close in another inch. "Let's see." Buttercup said heating the wall with her laser vision and then punching the wall only to have a bruised, burnt hand. "DAMN IT! | HATE THAT!" "It's just like | feared. We're going to have to try and find a door or window." Dexter said frowning. "We'll just have to keep going right until we find something." They all nodded in agreement and started going right. The doorways were so small by then that they had to use their laser vision to get through. A small, circular window came into vision and Dexter didn't hesitate to kick it in before he started pulling the Powerpuffs in with him. The room behind them almost instantly shrank to the size ofa shoe box as Bubbles entered the room last. Looking back they all looked horrified and relieved at the same time. Dexter sat down on the floor to catch his breath. He could feel the adrenaline still pumping in his veins. "What type of room is this?" Bunny asked as she looked around only to see a kung fu fighting ring made of cement. The floor was covered in a deep, dark red that could only be compared to a rose. On the walls were shelves upon shelves of delicate looking china plates, cups and other dishes. Dexter looked up and raised an eye brow. "Well from the looks of it we're in a tournament room for kung fu fighters." Dexter said standing up and straightening his glasses to get a better look. "What is this doing here though?" "It does seem a tad out of place doesn't it?"Bunny said walking up to and around it. Just then Mojo Jojo entered the room in a karate uniform tightening his belt. Looking over and seeing them he raised an eye brow. "How the hell did you miserable brats get into my training facilities which is to say how did you get into the area which | use to make myself stronger in hand to hand combat?" Mojo asked looking rather annoyed. "Through your window." Buttercup said pointing to the broken window. "Didn't your parents ever teach you it's rude to break other people's property that is to say you should not cause damage to items and things that do not belong to you?" Mojo said shaking a finger at them. "Excuse me sir..." Dexter said walking up to him."But if we hadn't broken through the window in question we would have surely ended up as a pile of mashed human flesh and bone." "That is not my problem." Mojo said grumpily. "You should have known better than to challenge the quartet anyways. By challenging us as a whole you've also made me your enemy." Mojo then proceeded to jump into the ring. "You can only proceed forward after you kill me." "Mojo, you're bad but we're not going to kill you." Bubbles said as she sat cross legged on the floor. Mojo glared as Dexter and the other two Powerpuffs followed suit. "Do you want to die that is to say do you want to lose your pathetic lives? I'll kill you and by that | will end your pathetic lives!" Mojo said as his eyes grew watery and red. "No one wants to die." Bunny said. "I saw you in the background last time Mandark was threatening us. You're not his lacky are you?" "Lam his lacky... and with the knowledge I've gained from him | will defeat you Powerpuffs once and for all! THAT IS TO SAY YOU WILL PAY FOR ALL THE TIMES YOU'VE MADE A FOOL OF ME! I WILL NO LONGER BE YOUR SHADOW. | WAS CREATED THE SAME WAY YOU BRATS WERE AND YET SOMEHOW I'M HATED AND YOU'RE LOVED? THAT'S NOT RIGHT!" Mojo began yelling and screaming in inaudible monkey sounds. "You could be loved too Mojo, but you destroy every damn thing you touch and only put technology to use to destroy even more stuff." Buttercup spat at Mojo. "People hate you because you're usually causing all types of inconveniences for everyone on purpose." "BUT THAT'S WHY | DESTROY STUFF!" Mojo screamed his face turning red as he began jumping up and down. As Mojo was throwing his tantrum Dexter came up punching Mojo hard in the jaw making him go unconscious. "I'm sorry, but we can't grant your death wish." Dexter said laying him on the floor and checking his pulse getting a good look at him. "He looks like he's been under a lot of stress for a very long time." "That's not surprising." Bubbles said coming up beside Dexter. "Every time we usually see him he's always an angry mess." "That's not healthy." Dexter said shaking his head. "This may sound like a strange question, but has he ever went to see a therapist about his anger issues?" "No, we've always put him in jail for destroying the buildings." Bubbles answered with a slightly guilty tone. "Hmm... let's not take him to jail this time." Dexter said picking up the unconscious primate putting him gently over his shoulder. "I have a better idea that could help both him and the town." The Powerpuffs all exchanged weary glances at this. "Don't worry, | Know what I'm doing." Dexter said giving thema thumbs up. Leaving the room they found themselves in a long chilly hallway filled with paintings of Princess. The only things giving off any light were dozens of torches on the stone walls. There was an evil presence that could be felt everywhere. A bright light could be seen at the end of the hall which they headed straight for. The room they came into was not like any room they had ever seen. Instead of a floor there was a field of grass. Neat lines of fruit trees could be seen going for miles. In the distance they could make out a few people having a picnic. "We should probably keep our distance everyone." Dexter said squinting his eyes to see better. "We can't be sure if they're friends or foes." "But we need to communicate with someone to get out of here." Buttercup said in a slightly annoyed tone. "If they're our enemy they will do everything in their power to stop us from getting out." Dexter said patiently as he went over and started picking a strange, purple colored apple. "Speaking of stopping us from getting out, how do you know that fruit your picking isn't poison?" Buttercup said flying and grabbing it from Dexter's hand. "That's nonsense, why would they keep poisonous plants in the royal castle?" Dexter said as he picked another one and sniffed it out of Curiosity. "It could be for security purposes." Buttercup said taking a bite before she looked at the apple with surprise and scarfed the rest of it down. Dexter took a cautious bite and gasped in shock at the flood of flavors the one fruit contained. It was like someone took all the fruits that ever existed and shoved them all into the same place. It was like a volcano of tart and sweet flavors in his mouth. Suddenly the people from the picnic became aware of their presence and were flying up to them. Upon closer inspection it was Him and Princess. "Who the hell gave you permission to eat my fruit?" Princess said arrogantly. "You should throw it up NOW!" Buttercup just smirked and picked another, taking a huge bite out of it. "Make us your royal pain in the highness." Buttercup said wiping her mouth with the back of her hand. At this Princess’ face turned red with anger and she jumped up and down. "NO ONE INSULTS PRINCESS MORBUCKS NO ONE AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF YOU GET TO DIGEST MY FRUIT!" Princess yelled as Him snickered, but then stopped as Princess turned to him. "What's so funny? You're supposed to be on my team!" "Oh, it's not you Princess. Mandark had a plan to kill these worms eating your apples, but it looks like he failed." Him pointed out snaking his way around Princess’ shoulder. "You should make him take responsibility, but I'll pick up his slack." "That's good to hear... NOW GO KILL THEM! KILL THEM KILL THEM!" Princess said still angry. "Do | have to kill them right away though? Can't | just toy with them?" Him said turning into one of the apples. "Good grief that's the reason they always beat you!" Princess said face palming. "Hmm, speaking of getting beaten why are you carrying Mojo over your shoulder?" Him said to Dexter getting uncomfortably close to him. "It's none of your damn business and that's all you need to know." Dexter said looking irritated. "That's not a nice thing to say." Him said getting so close his face was a mere inch from Dexter's. "Well you're a very gross person." Dexter said wrinkling his nose at the smell of death and sulfur. "You won't be saying that in Hell will you?" Him said smiling very wickedly. "This is my domain you have entered. You've all foolishly taken part of the fruit that wasn't meant for you so you're trapped here until you kill me or you die." At this point Dexter could feel everyone's eyes on him and he wasn't sure what to do. The colorful grass began turning into burned, charred rock and the trees were transforming into thorny bushes. The sun turned into a blood red moon and showers of stars soon started to crash into the ground exposing molten lava. "Oh my God!" Buttercup screamed as she narrowly missed one of the falling stars. Flying for the exit they all tried to leave, but an invisible barrier stopped them in their tracks. Dexter threw Mojo into the hallway since he hadn't eaten any of the fruit and turned to face Him and Princess for the fight he would have to face for his friends and for his life. To be continued... Chapter 10 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. As the stars continued falling from the sky, molten lava sprang forth from holes in the now steaming hot, stony floor. Bubbles, Buttercup and Bunny all flew by Dexter who seemed the most confident. He was in truth a nervous rec though as sweat started to come in nervous huge droplets on his forehead. Him looked to be talking to Princess patiently as she continued throwing her fit. "We should attack them now while we have the chance." Dexter said wiping the sweat from his brow and looking toward the villainous duo. "You know these villains better than | do... we need to attack the weakest of the two first. The faster we get rid of the them, the faster we'll achieve victory." "Then in that case we'll need to attack Princess." Bubbles said flying close by Dexter's side. "Why Princess? She dresses like you guys... So does that mean she's a Powerpuff girl?" Dexter asked scratching his head. Both Bubbles and Buttercup broke out in laughter, rolling in midair. Their laughter was obviously reaching Him and Princess since they were now looking over at them. "Princess is just a wannabe Powerpuff. In reality she's a spoiled brat who gets whatever she wants because her dad is rich." Buttercup explained wiping away a few tears. "Yeah, she'd never understand the full capacity of our powers even when she has or had them." Bubbles said still laughing a little. Him waved his claw toward them making more stars fall from the sky. They scattered as both villains split up as well. Dexter flew toward what looked like Princess. He thought of merely disabling her so she would just be out of the way. Him was the only one they actually had to kill after all. He came closer and it was Princess, but she was facing away from him. Sneaking up he grabbed both her arms from behind making her let out a gasp. "Let me go and I'll give you lots of money. You can be like a god in this world." She said trying to struggle out of his grip. "I'm sorry, but you can't bribe me out of doing the right thing. Especially with pixeled money that doesn't mean a darn thing." Dexter said keeping his hold on her. "Then what about | release just you and give you all the real money you want? You science nerds love money for new projects right?" She spoke more seductively this time. "|... Well yes... but..." Dexter said now confused as to what he should do. "All you have to do is pledge your allegiance to me and you'll have all the money you need for the rest of your life." Princess said breaking from Dexter's grip and staying uncomfortably close to him. "Well... that does sound great... but..." Dexter's eyes had widened, he was sweating bullets and his face was turning red. In the distance he saw a heart broken and confused Bubbles looking their way. Taking her by the shoulders he pushed her away glaring at her. "You know what? To heck with it. | don't need your damn filthy money you damn filthy brat." "| would have loved to end this peacefully... but you seem to have other ideas." Princess said as a small goatee popped up on her chin and her skin started turning red. Dexter's heart dropped and he gasped as he looked to see the real Princess behind Bubbles. He felt two sharp claws grab his arms and looked back over to see Him laughing madly and inching uncomfortably close to him. His arms were starting to bleed from where Him was grabbing him making him wince in pain. "Did you honestly think it would be that easy to defeat me?" Him whispered into Dexter's ear causing chills to run up his spine. Dexter tried to speak, but as Him took his true form becoming darker and more muscular. He struggled just to breath and a fear so subliminal, he was struggling to fight, was taking a hold of him and freezing up his body. He was pushing his mind so hard to think of a solution, when suddenly a twinkling spark of light entered his heart and his mind. All he could picture were his friends and family. He instantly began to think of how he cherished and loved them more than anything in the world. Even though Deedee had caused him much pain in the past he could now look back and admire her free spirit and how even now she was bringing light to the lives of countless people. He thought of how his parents lovingly nurtured and supported him and his sister so they could grow as well as any other child could. Forgetting Him altogether now Dexter smiled now thinking of his newly found girlfriend and friends and how much he appreciated being able to fit in. As thoughts of thankfulness took hold from within Dexter, flooding him with all types of positive feelings his entire body began to glow bright causing Him to scream in agony. He started to shrink away from him. Dexter looked down at the weakening Him and speedily launched himself to him twisting his head and breaking his neck. Him now laid lifeless on the ground as the room began changing once again. Now it was draped in luxurious red carpet, expensive furniture and golden curtains. Buttercup, Bunny and Bubbles had all worked together to pin Princess to the ground who just laid there throwing a tantrum on the floor. Mojo still laid in the hallway dead to the world. "LET GO OF ME! I'M TOO RICH TO BE DEFEATED!" Princess yelled as tears rolled down her cheeks. "You may be rich, but you're also an idiot." Buttercup said giving her a strong punch to the jaw making her pass out. Dexter picked up Mojo sighing. "We have to keep going. We still have to defeat Mandark before we can get out of here." Dexter said coming back to the group. "Okay, well in that case we should kill off Princess so we don't have to deal with her later." Buttercup said as she started to step on Princess’ head. "NO! DON'T KILL HER!" Dexter yelled effectively stopping and confusing Buttercup. "Why not?" Buttercup said looking irritated. "Two wrongs don't make a right... besides | think she can still be made into a good person.” Dexter said looking at Bubbles who looked uncertain and worried. He responded by pulling her closely to his free side kissing her affectionately on the lips. "Don't worry." Bubbles smiled and nuzzled Dexter's neck, hugging him tightly. "Ah jeez get a room you two." Buttercup said making both their faces turn a rosey red. "Speaking of getting a room... maybe we should get out of this one." Bunny said pointing to the next hallway. "You would be right Bunny. We have to find Mandark so we can save Blossom and get out of here." Dexter said leading the way to the next fight that would determine if they would reclaim their freedom and right to live. To be continued... Chapter 11 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Dexter carried Mojo and Bubbles carried Princess as they flew down the next hallway in search of Mandark and a way out. Buttercup wrinkled her nose as she glanced at Princess and flew ahead of Bubbles. Bunny just watched and shook her head. She flew close to Bubbles still looking at Buttercup. "Has she always had issues with anger?" Bunny whispered to Bubbles. Bubbles said nothing, but gave a silent nod. The Hall way was now starting to resemble a laboratory rather than a castle or a home. Several paintings of interesting looking inventions hung on the walls. The wall paper was a blood red with a creepy pattern of golden eyeballs. The walls were now lined with mirrors which didn't help ease the tension in the air. Bubbles stayed as close to Dexter as she could without bumping Princess awake. "Do you really believe you're going to escape this place?" Mandark's voice came from everywhere. "Where are you Mandark? Show yourself!" Dexter said frowning as he looked around for the source of the sound. "| can't tell you that Dexter. You know, you could have just accepted my offer to be my lacky. If you did this wouldn't have happened." Mandark said coldly. "| could never work for an evil asshole like you!" Dexter said keeping his grip on Mojo. "You don't have any love for any living thing." "That's because life has no meaning to it. We live and then we die. What's the point of that?" Mandark was now speaking with a sharp tongue. "If that's the way you see things... it's no wonder your so evil..." Dexter said angrily as he heard a clanking sound. "You guys we have to move fast!" Dexter said as he speedily started moving forward. At the end of the hall they found a sterile looking bedroom. Blossom sat on the bed wearing a lacy, pink night gown. She looked toward them with sedated eyes and got up, floating freely in the air like them. "Don't worry guys, | got this." Buttercup said as she approached Blossom. Dexter gave a thumbs up to her and Bubbles and Bunny both gave nodding smiles. Buttercup turned to Blossom and almost instantly started exchanging hits and blows. Blossom wasn't having much success blocking, being a sedated puppet. She managed to give Buttercup a few bruises before she was finally knocked out. Slinging Blossom onto the bed, Buttercup rejoined the group. "Well it doesn't look like we're going anywhere seeing as we're ata dead end.” Buttercup said. "Not necessarily." Dexter said looking around the room finding a book shelf. "What could you possibly mean? This really is a dead end. Where else could we possibly go?" Bunny asked looking at the titles ona book shelf. "You're looking at the answer right in front of you Bunny." Dexter said pulling what looked to be the most boring book in existence. The shelf scrolled up like a garage door revealing an elaborate laboratory. "Don't push any buttons if you don't know what they do." "Why would we do that?" Bubbles giggled nuzzling Dexter. "Well long story short, that's how someone used to destroy parts of my laboratory." Dexter said taking in the view of Mandark's laboratory. "Are you enjoying your visit to my... Sanctuary?" came Mandark's voice coldly. "Mandark?" Dexter turned to see the taller boy standing behind them. "Yes, the one and only." Mandark said holding a laser gun in his right hand and a video game controller in his left. "| hate to tell you this, but you were right about hitting a dead end Buttercup." "What's that supposed to mean?" Buttercup retorted. "What the hell do you think it means?" Mandark said pressing the pause button causing Blossom to get back up off the floor. Pocketing his gun he took full control of Blossom once again. She lunged fists first toward Dexter. "I hate you Dexter... and anyone who stands with you. I've wanted you to die for a long time and thanks to..." Mandark was interrupted as the castle started to glitch showing random bits of coding everywhere in the room. Holes in the floor started to appear and a sucking sound could faintly be heard. "Mandark... how did you build this world?" Dexter said looking into one of the holes in the floor. "| sold my soul to Him." Mandark said struggling slightly against the black hole's gravity. "I'll do anything to have my revenge against you." "That's not good, it means when you die you're going to That Place." Bubbles said shaking her head. "No... not That Place!" Buttercup said in shock. "Yes... That Place." Bubbles said sighing. "Nonsense, I'm not going to die." Mandark snapped. "Yes you are." Bubbles argued back. "Eventually everyone dies." In the mess of back and forth arguing Bunny slapped Mandark's hand making the remote drop to the floor and break. Blossom almost instantly woke up and blinked in surprise. The confused look on her face so obvious as the holes in the floor began to grow. "Why did you do that?" Mandark said angrily picking up the remote control pieces. "Because she deserves her freedom idiot." Bunny said backing away from him and toward the master computer. "What are you doing with that?" Mandark said now struggling to walk over to her. "I'm freeing all of us from your tyranny." Bunny said typing ina command and hitting enter causing Blossom to disappear instantly. Mandark hissed violently jumping for her, but missed as the black hole sucked him in far enough to grab Bubbles by her leg. "You're a hero, you can't let me die no matter how evil | am." Mandark said tightening his grip on Bubbles. "Let me go you evil crazy man." Bubbles cried trying to get away as Mandark was pulling her in with him. Bunny hurriedly typed in a second command making Bubbles disappear sending Mandark into shock as he clawed for another person to grab. He screamed in agony as he was sucked into the black hole. "Bunny, don't forget about Bell." Dexter reminded her. Bunny nodded and typed in the rest of the commands making even Mojo and Princess disappear. Dexter woke up to a dimly lit room. Everyone including him looked to have been sleeping in tubes with strange helmets on their heads. Taking it off from his head he pushed the door to his tube open and got out. Sighing in relief he watched as all the Powerpuffs had awakened as well and were climbing out of their tubes. Running up to Bubbles he hugged her tightly, kissing her deeply. Her warm body pressing against his was more than enough comfort. He never wanted it to end as he continued to kiss and hold her. To be continued... Chapter 12 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Dexter held Bubbles tightly to him as he looked around the room of human sized holding tubes. Princess angrily stepped out of her own tube marching over to Dexter and the Powerpuffs. "YOU RUINED EVERYTHING YOU STUPID PATHETIC NERD!" Princess yelled pointing at Dexter. "You don't have to blame me for your mistakes. Any system running on evil is eventually going to become unstable with time." Dexter said rolling his eyes as Princess' face grew bright red with more anger. "NO WAY IT WOULD HAVE WORKED HAD YOU NOT MESSED IT UP!" Princess said jumping up and down, throwing a tantrum like a child to which Buttercup responded by punching her just hard enough to knock her to the floor. "Now Buttercup, violence isn't always the answer." Dexter said face palming making Buttercup glare up at Dexter. "It's gotten me out of tight jams before." Buttercup said looking down at the pitiful Princess. "Yeah, well this isn't the right problem for that solution." Dexter said helping Princess to her feet. "You hear that Butterbutt, violence isn't the answer." Princess said laughing and pointing up at her. "That's it." Dexter said grabbing a rope from one of the shelves and skillfully tying Princess' hands behind her back. "HEY YOU CAN'T TIE ME UP I'M PRINCESS MORBUCKS! I'M TOO RICH TO BE TIED..." Princess' words were muffled with duct tape. "You're too stupid not to be tied up." Dexter muttered as he threw her over his shoulder. "It's time we left this dump and went to my place." "Yeah, okay." Bubbles said opening the door to a well known street in Townsville. Their location seemed to be an abandoned donut shop as they exited. Bubbles picked up Mojo throwing him over her shoulder. The streets seemed to be filled to the brim with crime as store windows were broken into and trash littered the streets. Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom floated close by as everyone else had to walk. "Do you know your way well around the city on foot?" Dexter asked Bubbles. "Not really, that's why we're going to have to check from the sky every now and then." Bubbles said blushing in embarrassment. "This place is a dump." Bunny said sighing and scratching her head. "It's not always like this." Blossom said a little frustrated. "When we don't fight crime the criminals always seem to do this." They walked until their feet were sore and they had reached the grocery store. The professor's tiny car could be seen parked outside the store. "That's the professor's car. We need to go in and look for him, but we need half of us to stay here in case he comes back." Blossom said feeling her leadership instincts kicking in. "Dexter, Bunny, Bubbles and Bell. You guys can stay here since you're carrying dead weight or would slow us down. Buttercup, you can come help me look." They all nodded in agreement and Blossom and Buttercup went racing off into the store to find him. "What if we're attacked while we wait...?" Bell said looking worried. "Don't worry, I'll be here to protect us." Bubbles said reassuringly. "Thanks." Bell said smiling softly. "It's no problem at all." Bubbles said looking up at the sky looking as if she were remembering something. Soon the professor came out with a few bags of groceries, eyes showing signs of surprise. He put the groceries in the trunk of his car and turned to all of them scratching his head. "So where have you guys been? Dexter your family has been worried sick about you." The Professor said before turning to Bubbles, Buttercup and Blossom. "I've also been worried." "We didn't willingly abandon you professor... this strange boy, Mojo, Princess and Him conspired to trap us in this... fake computer world." Bubbles explained as calmly as she could. "We got out as fast as we could." "Wow... SO it was a sort of matrix?" The professor said scratching his chin as he looked as though he were deep in thought. "I didn't know such a thing could be stable." "It wasn't." Bunny said yawning. "We escaped that dump Mandark called a masterpiece just in time for it to collapse in on itself." "Hmm?" The professor said as he raised an eyebrow just as he noticed Bunny and Bell. "And just who might you two be?" "I'm Bunny..." Bunny said pointing to herself then proceeded to point to Bell. "... and this is Bell. We're Powerpuff girls, but we don't have all the super powers that your daughters do." "Speak for yourself Bunny, at least you have some abilities." Bell said sighing. "Yeah, well neither of us have parents so we're still somewhat in the same boat." Bunny said giving her a sideways hug trying to cheer her up. "How about you both stay with us? I'm sure we can find room for you." The professor said smiling in a fatherly way. "Really, are you sure?" Buttercup said giving Bunny a hug too now. "Yeah, I'm sure." The professor said unlocking the car now. "By the way, why do you have Mojo and Princess with you?" "We're dropping them off in jail on our way home." Buttercup said wrinkling her nose at Princess. Dexter raised an eyebrow at Buttercup, but said nothing. "We'll fly home." Bubbles said as Buttercup took Princess off Dexter's shoulder. "We'll meet you there." "Okay." Dexter said wearily looking at Mojo and Princess. Dexter, Bunny and Bell got into the car with the Professor and soon they were headed back home. "So Bunny, how were you made or do you know?" the Professor asked curiously. "Mandark made me with a recipe that made me before, except he introduced a carbon stabilizer into the formula. That's why I'm not falling apart even though my recipe is imperfect." Bunny said looking up at the sky. "I can't fly and | don't have laser eye beams, but I'm excellent at building tunnels and leaping similar to how a flea can leap." "Wow, now that is interesting." The professor said grinning slightly. "And what about you Bell?" "| have no powers. l'm the result you would have gotten had you not added the chemical x. I'm not useful when it comes to saving the day. I'm pretty much just a normal human." Bell said leaning her head against the car door watching the clouds. "Aww, well | wouldn't say you're just a normal human." Dexter said patting her shoulder. "No normal human is made in a laboratory... usually." "Oh, but if that's the case how are they made?" Bell said confused and surprised. "Well... when a mommy and daddy love each other very much they do a special dance together." Dexter explained. "Oh really? What kind of dance?" Bell said curiously as everyone else blushed nervously. "Uhh... I've never seen it so | don't know..." Dexter said as his face turned as red as a tomato. "We're home." The Professor said as he parked in the driveway. "I'll be making dinner soon." Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles landed in the yard just as the professor finished his sentence. Mojo nor Princess were with them leaving Dexter to assume that maybe that had actually taken them to jail. Not knowing how the professor would react to his idea he decided to keep his mouth shut until later. Instead he ran up to Bubbles to stand by her, but just as he got to her a familiar mini van drove up and parked in his driveway. Deedee got out of the driver's seat and ran up to Dexter hugging him tightly. Her long, blond hair was put back into a tight bun and she had gotten bangs. She was dressed in a white and pink business dress that went just to her knees, matching her high heeled sandals. "Deedee, what are you doing here?" Dexter said slightly annoyed, but hugging her back. "Oh | thought I'd drop by seeing as you were missing. | guess you turned back up just as | got here though." Deedee said scratching her head and giving Dexter that confused smile she always gave him. "Where were you anyways?" "I'll explain it later. It's a really long story." Dexter said rubbing his forehead. "Dexter, who's she?" Bubbles said curiously. "Ah, Bubbles this is my sister Deedee." Dexter said gently wrapping his arm around Bubbles' shoulders. "Oh! Well it's nice to meet you." Bubbles said grinning. "Did my younger brother finally get a girlfriend?" Deedee asked smirking playfully giving her brother a noogie. "Argg stop it Deedee!" Dexter said in an annoyed tone as his face turned bright red. "Deedee, Dexter! Dinner's ready!" Dexter's mom said from the front door. "Uggh, looks like we'll have to explain what happened later after dinner." Dexter said to Bubbles as Deedee dragged him off. "Say bye to your sweetheart Dexie poo!" Deedee said making his face beet red as they both went into the house. To be continued... Chapter 13 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Bubbles blushed slightly as she watched Dexter get pulled into his house by his older sister. "I'm starving, what's for dinner?" Buttercup said finding her soccer ball in the grass. "We're having pot roast and vegetables for dinner." The professor said as he and Bunny started carrying in the groceries. "Sounds good to me." Blossom said as she started to help encouraging the others to help as well. They all headed in the house, groceries in hand. Bubbles saw Dexter eating dinner with his family through his kitchen window as she put the bananas away. He looked her way just as Bell started setting the table. She turned and started helping as the professor finished preparing the meal he'd obviously made using a crock pot. They all sat around the table quietly eating. The silence was awkward so Buttercup started picking at and playing with her food. "So... uh... Bunny, do you like sports?" Buttercup said trying to spark up a conversation. "I'm not really that into them, but | do love a good game of dodge ball." Bunny said cheerfully. "Maybe we should all play a game after dinner?" "Oh man, | haven't played that in ages." Bubbles laughed. "I almost forgot that game existed." "Hey I'm game, | love dodge ball." Buttercup said smirking menacingly. "Uhh... maybe I'll just read a book after dinner." Bell said nervously looking the other way. "I'm sure I'd just get in the way." "Ah, well don't worry I'm not really a huge fan of sports either." Bubbles said winking at Bell. "| have some books in my room you can choose from. | could also teach you how to embroider and crochet." "Pfft, girly stuff!" Buttercup said scarfing down her food. "I'd love that." Bell said grinning as she finished her food. After dinner Buttercup, Blossom and Bunny went into the backyard to set up their dodge ball game. Bell and Bubbles sat out front ona bench swing the professor had set up. Bubbles had brought a few different colors of yarn and a few crochet needles. "Hey Bubbles, What are you and Bell making?" Dexter said walking over with curiosity. "Hey Dexter, we're just making scarves." Bubbles said getting some baby blue yarn ready. "Everyone else is outback playing dodge ball." Dexter's eyes became as wide as saucers. "Well, not to be rude but I'm glad I'm not playing." Dexter said sitting down next to Bubbles. "Why's that?" Bubbles said looking over at Dexter who looked relaxed and content now. "I'm horrible at it... heck back in elementary school | was so bad a built a mobile suit just so | could win." Dexter said laughing and face palming. "Woah, that is bad." Bell said laughing a bit. "| came back to discuss what we're going to do about Mojo Jojo and Princess." Dexter said looking up at the stars. "Yeah, that is a problem. If we just keep throwing them in jail they're just going to keep doing the same things again." Bubbles said gently showing Bell how to start crocheting. Just then a beautiful, blonde girl came up to them holding a stack of flyers. "Hello, we're recruiting young ladies who would like to make a difference in our community." The blonde girl said perkily. "Umm... sure we'll take a flier." Dexter said raising an eyebrow. "Oh, I'm sorry but males are not allowed to join." The girl said handing a flier to Bubbles and Bell. "Don't you think that's a bit... well... sexist?" Bubbles said eyeing the flyer. On the poster there was a female symbol with two snakes wrapped around it. The poster read "Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad. Join and together we will lift women up!" "Not at all. We just want to create more opportunity for the female portion of the community." The blonde said yawning a bit. "The first meeting is at Townsville park tomorrow at noon. You know, the one with the volcano? Well, | must be off." She left and they were left in awkward silence. "That was strange." Dexter said looking at the flier. "Yeah, you're not kidding." Bubbles said giving Dexter a weary look. Dexter couldn't resist a yawn and a stretch. "Well, we won't be able to find out much until their meeting. | suggest we get some sleep." Dexter said giving Bubbles a loving hug. "You sleep well and stay safe." "We'll be fine. You sleep well and stay safe too." Bubbles said hugging him back. Dexter headed back home and Bell and Bubbles continued crocheting. What tomorrow would bring would simply have to wait as everyone took some much needed time to rest. To be continued... Chapter 14 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Chapter 14 Dexter came in as Deedee set a stack of french toast in the middle of the table. Grabbing a cup of coffee Dexter sat down. "SO Deedee, how's Baxter?" Dexter asked casually getting a few slices of french toast. "Oh, busy with yet another project. He says it's the best thing since the remote controlled burrito maker with conveyor belt." Deedee said rolling her eyes. "Haha, | remember that! | thought it was kind of cool." Dexter said laughing. "It gave everyone such terrible gas, but made the best burritos. It couldn't be worse than the rudeness removal invention | created some years back." "Oh gosh no!" Deedee said laughing so hard her eyes were watering. "We were grounded for weeks after that." "Not to mention all the extra chores we had to do." Dexter snickered. A knock came at the door just as Dexter's mom walked into the kitchen. "Oh! I'll go get it." she said scurrying off. She came back with Bubbles floating close behind her. "We're still eating breakfast if you'd like some." "I'd love some, thank you." Bubbles said taking a seat next to Dexter. "Oh my, good morning." Deedee said pouring herself another cup of coffee. "Morning." Bubbles chirped happily. "I'm glad you came by." Dexter said with enthusiasm as he got Bubbles a plate and silverware. "Why is that?" Bubbles said getting some french toast on her plate and drowning it in syrup. "Well, we want to reform Mojo and Princess right? We need to start with Mojo." Dexter explained. Deedee just sat by sipping her coffee looking confused. "Yeah, after Mandark's abuse I'm sure he's going to need someone to be there for him." Bubbles said as flash backs of Mandark came to her mind. "Woah, Dexter you had a run in with Mandark?" Deedee said putting her cup down. "Yeah... but he's gone now." Dexter explained. "He'll never be back to bother us for good." "That's a relief. He was a crazy control freak bent on getting what he wanted no matter what the cost. Really annoying too!" Deedee said going back to her coffee. "So I've heard." Bubbles said with an uncomfortable look on her face. "What made him leave for good though?" Deedee pondered. "Eh, he got sucked into some things and he'll no longer have any free time for that." Dexter grinned awkwardly. "Me and Bubbles need to go visit a friend. We'll be back later." "Okay, well be safe!" Deedee said picking up the newspaper. Once out the door Bubbles started walking next to Dexter, just wanting to enjoy his company for a while. It was then that Bunny hopped over by them. "Hey! I'm sorry for eve's dropping, but | couldn't help over hearing you're going to Mojo's place." Bunny said following them as they started walking down the sidewalk. "Blossom, Buttercup and Bell are going to that mechanical nurse club thing. | have absolutely no interest in that sort of... | don't know what to call that." "| don't see why not." Dexter said casually looking at his neighbor's houses as he was still getting used to his area. "Yeah, | think it'll be fine." Bubbles smiled and nodded. "Besides, the more the merrier." "To be honest, I'm kind of interested to see how technologically capable Mojo is. It's too bad he uses his knowledge to destroy stuff." Bunny said stretching a bit. "That's the reason why we're paying him a visit." Bubbles said as they left their neighborhood. Walking to the volcano they looked up at the tall staircase they would have to climb. "Wow... that's quite a ways up." Dexter said looking up, straightening his glasses. "Hmm, yeah. Me and my sisters never think about that since we can fly." Bubbles said scratching the back of her neck. "Well, now's our chance to see what it's like to climb up to Mojo's home." Bunny said taking the lead as she hopped on the first steps up the staircase. Bubbles just sort of grinned and followed and soon Dexter followed as well. The staircase became very steep so they had to step carefully. "Ah jeez, how does Mojo do it?" Dexter asked as sweat started forming on his brow. Finally they got to the top. "Phew, | think... | prefer flying." Bubbles said looking back down casually. "Eh, you get used to walking when you can't fly." Dexter said ringing Mojo's door bell. A disgruntled Mojo answered the door. "And just what brings you to my home, that is to say why are you here in front of the entrance to the place of my residence?" "There is sufficient evidence that you're not truly as evil as you think you are." Dexter said matter-of-factly. Mojo began snickering somewhat. "Pfft, you think I'm not evil after all the destruction I've caused this town?" Mojo said arrogantly. "It's obvious that you've had a difficult past... and subconsciously you try to erase whatever happened by destroying things. Why did you choose to serve under Mandark? Did you know he was going to be abusive as a leader?" Dexter inquired logically. "Come in." Mojo said moving aside for them. The look in his eyes was slightly suspicious. "AND DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING!" "Of coarse, it's not like we hit a baseball through you're window or anything." Bubbles said rolling her eyes. Dexter meanwhile peered around to see Mojo had left his laboratory door open. Inside was a variety of complex machines. Mojo seeing this slammed the door shut. "There's nothing for you to see in there." Mojo scowled. "Ah, well then tell me this Mojo. Why do you put such a huge amount of creativity into destroying things?" Dexter inquired as he noticed how clean and sterile the rest of Mojo's home was. "Because | want to go down in history as the first person to take over the world." Mojo said enthusiastically. "Umm... no offense, but that has never worked in history... ever." Dexter said shaking his head and straightening his glasses. "What do you mean it never works? What about Napoleon and others like him?" Mojo asked looking puzzled. "They all grew old or became ill or injured and died. Eventually people learned what they had done and were glad there was one less person like that in the world. The world actually celebrates when tyrants and villains die. You don't have to believe me. | can even show you the proof if you need it." Dexter said as Mojo gave him an irritated look. "No, that can't be..." Mojo said as he tried to think hard for excuses now. "... he... Napoleon was a great man who went down in history for his war tactics." "He did have some great strategies I'll give you that, but think back to when you were Mandark's lacky. Weren't you glad you didn't have to suffer under his abusive tyranny once he was gone?" Dexter said sitting in the chair next to him. "Well... yes... yes, | guess | was." Mojo said as he looked shocked at himself. "If you keep doing what you've been doing that's how people will feel about you." Dexter said. In the background Mojo and could see Bubbles and Bunny whisper to one another as they looked at him. "You win..." Mojo Jojo said with a sigh making the powerpuffs look at him in surprise. "Hey, don't be so down. You're still alive so you can still turn things around." Dexter said giving Mojo a pat on the shoulder. "Yeah, but how? The whole city pretty much hates me." Mojo said looking doubtfully at Dexter. "Hmm, we'll have to figure that out. Getting a good reputation after getting a bad one is never easy." Dexter said rubbing the area between his eye brows. "Maybe you should come by my house after you've had time to settle down and soak in this new information I've given you." "Sure, friends?" Mojo said as he extended out his hand for Dexter to shake. "Friends!" Dexter said as he shook Mojo's hand. "Tomorrow | may be a bit busy working on my mobile suit, but I'm sure you know how to act in a laboratory. You're more than welcome to come over to my house. | live in the house to the left of the Powerpuff girl's home." "Oh wow... you have a laboratory too?" Mojo said a bit surprised. "Well yes, | have a laboratory. How else am | supposed to build my inventions? " Dexter said looking at his watch. "It's getting late, we had better head out." "Ah, well do you all need a ride home?" Mojo said as politely as he could. "Uh, sure we would love that." Dexter said. "| don't see a problem with that." Bunny said nodding. "Hmm... well... okay." Bubbles said hesitantly. They all went to Mojo's hover car and he took them over to the Powerpuff's house. There Blossom, Buttercup and Bell all sat in a circle on a blanket in their front yard. Mojo landed his car in the driveway and everyone got out. "Eww, it's Mojo and Dexter." Buttercup said wrinkling her nose at them. "Wow, what the heck did | do to deserve that?" Dexter said as he scratched his head looking confused. "You guys are so annoying, why don't you go play with your toys or watch football or something." Blossom said as she looked over some paper she had in hand. "That was just uncalled for." Mojo said shaking his head. "And here | thought the Powerpuff girls were heroes." "We are heroes... You guys, why are you saying such mean things?" Bubbles said looking confused. "Why shouldn't we? Males always oppress females, why not do it back?" Bell said with an unimpressed look on her face as she looked up at Mojo and Dexter. "Now | will confess there are some that do that, but you are painting with such a broad brush on this view point that what you're saying makes absolutely no sense." Dexter said calmly. "Shut up! Who are you to talk that way?" Buttercup said standing up and walking over to Dexter. "I'm not the one making threats and looking intimidating." Dexter said as he frowned at Buttercup. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Buttercup said as she cracked her knuckles glaring at Mojo and Dexter. "Oh nothing, enjoy your picnic. | think my mom's calling me." Dexter said as he beckoned Bubbles, Bunny and Mojo whom also looked shocked. Going into Dexter's home they all took a deep breath of relief. "Follow me and I'll show you a place we can be even safer." Dexter said going upstairs and beckoning them to follow him. Going up into his room Dexter pulled a book from the shelf revealing a secret staircase. Going down the staircase they found themselves in a giant science lab filled with all types of mechanical gadgets. "If you guys want to stay here, there's actually a kitchen and a few spare bedrooms here. No offense Bubbles, but your sisters... well scared the crap out of me." Dexter said as he sat down in his computer chair. "None taken, they scared the crap out of me too." Bubbles said as she rubbed her temples. "Well, | have surveillance cameras outside so we can see what they're doing when we're not looking." Dexter said turning on his computer. "That might be a good idea." Bunny said as she grabbed a juice box from the refrigerator. As Dexter turned on the monitor to his cameras something disturbing came up on the screen. On the picnic blanket there only sat Bell who was silently painting her nails with a giant sack of cash sitting next to her. They all looked at each other, eyes full of confusion. Even Mojo had become speechless at this point. What the hell was going on? To be continued... Chapter 15 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. The sun began to rise on Dexter's computer monitor, the golden rays of light shining softly on the grass. Deedee was standing in the laboratory kitchen flipping one slice of bacon after another. She looked over at Bubbles and Dexter who had slept in sleeping bags side by side. Bunny got up from her slumber and stumbled her way to the coffee machine. As she neared the coffee cups she noticed Deedee's presence. "Umm... how'd you find your way here?" Bunny said as she looked up at her with sleepy eyes. "Oh, | always find a way into Dexter's Laboratory." Deedee giggled rolling her eyes a bit. "Ah, well I'm sure he'll be happy to see you then." Bunny said pouring herself a cup of coffee. "Eh, that would be a first." Deedee said scrambling some eggs. Mojo got up and looked at Deedee cooking the bacon and eggs and to Bunny scratching the back of his head which slightly shocked and surprised him. "Oh! Morning Mojo." Bunny said as she put down silverware, plates and napkins on the table for everyone. "Good morning." Mojo mumbled as he dragged his feet to the coffee pot. "I can go check on your car if you're worried about it." Bunny said thoughtfully. "That would be lovely that is to say | would much appreciate that." Mojo said nodding his head. Bunny walked up the staircase to Dexter's room just as he was waking up. "Deedee, what are you doing down here?" Dexter said as he let out a yawn. "Making you guys breakfast." Deedee said scrambling some eggs. "Ah... okay, thank you." Dexter said, satisfied that at least she wasn't randomly destroying things. Turning to Bubbles who was the last to wake up he softly kissed her on the forehead and laid beside her again. "Wake up sleeping beauty." Bunny hopped back into the room quickly and shook her head. "Hey Mojo, do you like driving a crumpled up ball of metal?" Bunny said as she shook her head awkwardly. "Umm... no." Mojo said not looking happy. "Please tell me you're not going to say what | think you're going to say." "They kind of destroyed your vehicle." Bunny said dropping a lump of metal on the table. "What the hell?" Mojo said out loud as he looked annoyed. "| can melt it down and make you a new one Mojo... my intuition tells me we should turn on the news." Dexter said as he turned on his computer monitor, then tuned in on a program that allowed him access to local television stations. "Fine..." Mojo sighed looking a bit angry and annoyed. A news reporter sat at her desk sorting through a few papers before speaking once again. "This just in, a new hero in town has just taken down the Gangrene Gang." The reporter said cheerfully. A picture of Femme Fatale standing on the Gangrene Gang showed up on the upper right hand corner of the screen. "That's strange, why is she fighting crime?" Bubbles said as she tilted her head, looking confused as she woke up. "You know her?" Dexter said pouring himself some orange juice. "Yeah, she was a small time criminal who stole only Susan B. Anthony dollars." Bubbles said rubbing her tired eyes, still sitting in her sleeping bag. "She was some sort of... feminist bank robber." "She must have not left much of an impression with her crime if they're reporting her as a hero. That is to say, she is not much of a villain." Mojo said as he sipped of his coffee. "You got me too, never heard of her." Dexter said screwing together what looked like a remote controller. He turned the security monitors on only to see Blossom, Buttercup and Olga standing near Mojo's destroyed vehicle. "That's strange." Dexter said scratching his head looking at the monitor. "What's strange?" Bubbles asked looking confused. "What is Mandark's sister, Olga doing with your sisters?" Dexter asked looking at Deedee who looked just as confused if not more. "That is a bit strange." Deedee said looking concerned. "She was much more evil than Mandark." "Was she really? | hadn't really gotten to know her all that well." Dexter said cleaning his glasses with his shirt. "Well, she was able to bully Mandark into doing whatever she wanted him to do." Deedee said in a very concerned voice. "Ah, well then | guess we'll have to keep an eye on her. We can't let her get to even the level of control that Mandark had." Dexter said as Bubbles sat by him and he wrapped an arm around her. "We're simply going to have to go to the surface, but first... let's arm ourselves just in case." Dexter opened up a case filled with ray guns. He gave everyone a ray gun, Mojo getting the tiniest ray gun. "What is this blasted thing?" Mojo complained as he pointed at his tiny ray gun. "I can not defend myself with this, that is to say | can not defeat anyone trying to kill me with this." "Yeah you can, it's the noisy cricket." Dexter said as he gave Mojo a thumbs up who just in turn let out a heavy sigh. Going back up to Dexter's room they noticed something had changed. Femme Fatale stood with Blossom, Buttercup and Olga and they all looked to be discussing something. Olga looked at them holding their ray guns and raised an eyebrow as she pointed at them. "| think the shit is about to hit the fan..." Dexter said. "We'd better go outside so at least they don't wreck the house." "Oh sure, they can turn us into taxidermies, but God help them if they should stain the carpets." Mojo said sarcastically. "| know how you feel Mojo... but that's not helping." Bunny said patting him on the shoulder. As they exited the house Olga eyed Dexter and smirked coldly at him. "Looks like the Dorkster and his friends have come outside to play." Olga said with a vile grin. "Let's say we play a game with them?" "Do what you'd like with the others, but please leave the monkey. | want to add him to my... collection." Femme Fatale said eyeing Mojo greedily. At this Mojo looked at her confused and pointed to himself. She merely looked at him and nodded which made him visibly uncomfortable. Buttercup and Blossom smirked at each other, then toward Bubbles and Bunny. "What have you done to our sisters?" Bubbles yelled angrily as a deep frown settled on her face. "We only made them realize how pathetic the male gender is." Femme Fatale said proudly. "Girls, you'll want to capture the ape, the woman and the boy first. They have no powers and therefore they are the weakest." "Yes ma'am." Blossom and Buttercup said in unison as they flew in to take them by force. Bubbles flew for Dexter and Mojo while Bunny hopped over to Deedee to protect them. "We can't possibly shoot our sisters..." Bubbles said looking at her ray gun only to get a punch to the eye by Buttercup. "Yes you can, they're trying to kill you." Mojo said shooting his own ray gun at Buttercup hitting her successfully. She flew back to the ground rolling in pain, but Mojo had been blown back from the force of his... ahem... powerful gun. "Holy crap Dexter, where did you get this gun that is to say how did you obtain this particular weapon?" "Aliens." Dexter answered shortly as he shot at Blossom and missed just hitting the end of her red hair. It fizzled into black smoke, but oddly didn't seem to bother her as she swooped down and nabbed up Deedee who only looked shocked and confused. "DEEDEE! BRING BACK MY SISTER NOW!" Dexter shouted in alarm as Bunny tried grabbing Deedee's heels only to get dragged along for the ride. Bubbles flew up to them giving Blossom and confused glare. "Why are you doing this? Don't you understand you're obeying the very will of evil? Please stop this madness." Bubbles pleaded. Blossom would have none of it though as she simply speed off as Bunny lost her grip on Deedee's heel. Bubbles caught her just in time before she landed head first in the ground and then upon setting her gently on the ground zoomed off after her sister. Meanwhile Buttercup had recovered from the zap she had received from Mojo and was now getting back up. "Deedee you stupid sister." Dexter mumbled as he shot Buttercup down again, but this time it was less effective as she zoomed up punching him angrily in the stomach. "Crap..." Mojo said as Buttercup grabbed Dexter by his collar and dragged him as she zoomed straight for him. He started to run, but as soon as he turned Buttercup got a good kick to his kidney causing him to gasp in pain. Bunny hopped over only in time to grab a hold of Dexter only to once again get dragged along for the ride. Buttercup then flew off towards Townsville. Holding on for dear life Bunny clung to Dexter's ankles who looked just as panicked if not more than her as he couldn't breath. Buttercup was carrying Dexter by his white collar and it was slowly choking him to death. He passed out as his collar ripped off and they fell into some trees in the forest area of Townsville. Buttercup didn't notice the change in weight as she speed off toward a rather large stone building. Having the tree branches break their fall Bunny was still laying over one huge tree branch that had caught her. Looking down she saw they were still pretty high up so all she could do was hang onto Dexter's ankles so he wouldn't fall and prey for someone to come help them. To be continued... Chapter 16 Chapter 16 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Mojo struggled to his feet as Femme Fatale was drawing closer, her high heals clicking threateningly on the ground. She had her female symbol shaped gun pointing directly at him. "It's the end of the line... we can do this the easy way or we can also do this the fun way. What will it be?" Femme Fatale said with a sly smirk. Mojo looked up at her intimidating figure as he broke out into a cold sweat. His hands shook violently as he searched for his gun, but couldn't feel it anywhere on him. Looking over he saw it laying on the ground and reached to pick it up just to have it shot at and blown several feet away from him. Turning toward the dominant woman as she smirked evilly down at him. She grabbed his wrist before he could make a run for it. "You're going to serve yourself for the greater good." Femme Fatale said with a seductive threatening tone. "And what if | don't?" Mojo said frowning up at her, still shaking out of fear. "You won't just die, I'll make sure you live an agonizing and painful hell before you do." Femme Fatale said tightening her grip on the poor monkey as she grinned evilly into his eyes. "Why..." Was all Mojo could desperately gasp out as the shock in his system was leaving him breathless. "You fool, don't you understand? Starting with this city every male in the world will be enslaved to women." Femme Fatale hissed venomously as she smirked. "Now we must go back to the Federal Relations Headquarters to fit you with a fabulous new collar." Mojo struggled as Femme Fatale dragged him toward a white and blue Porsche. He lacked the strength to get away as she opened up the trunk of the car. Just as she was about to throw him in Bubbles zoomed in kicking her in the face. One of her front teeth flew out as she fell to the ground. "You shouldn't bully others Fatale, even if they aren't upstanding citizens." Bubbles said glaring as Fatale rubbed her mouth in pain. "You little brat! You ruined my perfect face!" Femme Fatale hissed as she saw her tooth on the ground. "No offense, but it was ruined long before | came along. That's why you wear that mask." Bubbles said picking up Mojo and flying off. Mojo sighed in relief as they landed on a nearby skyscraper. "Can | say thank you for saving my butt?" Mojo looked at Bubbles with a sincere thankful look. "Yes, you can. Now Mojo, we need to find out where everyone else went. | would have taken Femme Fatale to jail, but the citizens of Townsville think she's a hero. If | did that they would get angry and riot." Bubbles said frowning. "But aren't they smart enough to figure out she's putting on an act? That is to say are they not intelligent enough to see she's a fake?" Mojo asked raising an eye brow. "Honestly Mojo, they're idiots. You'd be better off explaining the whole matter to a squirrel." Bubbles sighed shaking her head. **xAX* Meanwhile Back in the Forest***** Bunny held onto Dexter's ankles for dear life not wanting him to fall. She cringed a bit as her muscles started to ache from the strain of both their weights. "Dexter!" Bunny yelled, but nothing happened. A small brown eyed squirrel flew by and starting cheeping at them. "I'm sorry, | don't speak squirrel." Bunny said giving the little critter a disappointed glance. The squirrel face palmed and lifted Bunny and Dexter in the air and set them on the ground. "Wow, thanks Mr. Squirrel. How can we repay you?" Bunny said gently laying Dexter down in a pile of leaves. Looking down at Dexter with concern Bunny placed her ear over Dexter's nose and mouth. She could hear a faint breathing sound and sighed in relief. "Good, he's just unconscious." Bunny said wiping her brow. Picking Dexter up and throwing him over her shoulder Bunny started to hop out of the forest. The flying squirrel followed her patiently as Bunny hopped on top of a local grocery store. Bubbles could be seen flying toward them carrying Mojo Jojo on her back when she landed next to them. "| was wondering about you guys. Why is Dexter sleeping?" Bubbles said looking concerned. "He's unconscious from being strangled by Buttercup." Bunny said with a worried look on her face. "Ah, well we should probably get him to a hospital." Bubbles said picking Dexter up bridal style. The squirrel landed on Bubbles shoulder making her take notice in him. "Hey, this is Bullet out pet squirrel!" Bubbles said smiling and the critter. "Cheep... cheep cheep. Cheep cheep cheep." The squirrel nodded it's head in response gaining awkward glances from Mojo and Bunny as they continued having a conversation in squirrel language. "Bullet says he'll carry Mojo to the hospital. Do you think you can keep up Bunny?" Bubbles finally turned to ask her. "But | don't want to be carried by a flying rat?" Mojo protested. "Do you want me to translate that to bullet?" Bubbles said smirking. "He's got all the same powers me, Buttercup and Blossom have." "Fine fine, | won't protest as long as he doesn't bite and give me rabies." Mojo said grumpily. Flying Dexter to the hospital Bunny hopped over buildings and kept up only lagging behind a little. Mojo looked nervously down at the street as Bullet held onto one of his hands with both of his paws. Getting to the hospital Dexter was taken to the emergency room, meanwhile people in the waiting room were glancing nervously toward Mojo. Some raised their eyebrows as if not believing one of the Powerpuff girls would hang around such a well known villain. The television was playing the news just as an emergency broadcast was coming on. Bubbles frowned as Femme Fatale showed up next to a reporter looking pathetic. Her front tooth was still missing and her uniform was torn up, which she undoubtedly ruined herself. She had even given herself a few bruises and cuts to make herself look good for the camera. "| was trying to save one of the Powerpuff Girls... Bubbles from Mojo Jojo, but | was so surprised when she sided with him instead and beat me up!" Femme Fatale cried dramatically sobbing into her hands afterwards. "All | wanted to do was stop Mojo from stealing things from people's homes." "Does this city need more new heroes? Are we looking at the end of Townsville? This is channel five news reporting to you. Back to you Tom." The female reporter said rubbing Femme Fatale's back supporting her on camera. The news cut to the whether as the entire waiting room was now glaring at them. This was no longer a good place to wait and who would have thought that a waiting room could become a dangerous place to wait. As the other visitors started getting together to form an angry mob Bubbles grabbed Mojo and Bunny and yanked them outside with Bullet tailing behind. She sat them on the hospital roof with a shocked look on her face as she looked at her hands. There was an uncomfortable silence now and that was all. To be continued... Chapter 17 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Bubbles face palmed as she sat on the edge of the hospital roof. "This is a complete disaster. Now we're the bad guys." Bubbles said trying not to sob. Bunny placed a hand on Bubble's shoulder. "Hey, don't worry. Sooner or later the real truth is going to come out. You just have to have the confidence that it will." Bunny said smiling with a sure look on her face. "They probably won't figure that out on their own, that is to say the majority of the citizens are not smart enough to put the pieces together." Mojo said standing on the edge, looking down at the ant sized people walking below them. "They were stupid enough to lock you and your sisters in jail once because of some cross dressing criminals pretending to be you. Remember that?" Bunny wrinkled her nose in disgust. "What? No they didn't." Bunny said looking grossed out. "Yes they did, | saw them use the costumes get out of jail from my cell." Mojo said rolling his eyes. "Wow, and here | never thought you paid attention to that sort of stuff." Bubbles said looking at Mojo, raising an eyebrow. "Of coarse | pay attention to other villain's mistakes, that is to say | place my focus on the things that other bad guys do wrong so | do not make the same wrong choices." Mojo explained. "Then why do we always beat you?" Bubbles said scratching her head, looking confused. "Because you have the upper hand by default, that is to say the chemical x you're infused with automatically gives you the better advantage." Mojo said grumpily. "Now, to get Dexter out of the hospital. We can't just break in and get him. That would ruin hospital property." "| had no idea you cared." Bubbles said raising her eyebrows. "| don't, but if an unfortunate accident were to occur and | sustained injuries | would need this location to obtain treatment." Mojo pointed his finger toward the hospital as he explained his logic. "As for Dexter, we're going to need him to defeat the she demons that are taking over Townsville. | don't know about everyone else here... but | don't believe I'd like to be a mind slave to a bunch of crazy control freak woman villains." "Wait... mind slave?" Bunny said gulping nervously. "Blossom and Buttercup have probably been turned into them." Mojo said frowning in deep thought. "They used to do animal testing with that type of technology." "But wait Mojo, how do you know they did that?" Bubbles said looking over at him frowning. "| know that because my parents were just a few of the victims from the human scientists tests." Mojo said bitterly as he stared more intensely at the people passing by. "So that's why you hate humans..." Bubbles said a little wide eyed, looking at Mojo. "YES BUBBLES, THAT IS WHY | HATE HUMANS!" Mojo yelled as he whipped around to look back at Bubbles. "Your species is the most destructive of them all. Why should | be punished for going around destroying things, when you all get away with it every single day?" "| have no idea what you're talking about." Bubbles said scratching her head. "You pollute and put toxins in the water where sea life can choke on it and die, just so you can heat and cool your houses and turn ona light switch. | might have an evil lair, but at least | get my energy from thermal energy from the earth. That is to say, you're ignorant of the destruction you cause on your local environment and | use my volcano for electricity." "Umm, that may be true Mojo... but you kind of destroy the town at least once a week. It's not cheap on the earth to rebuild all the stuff you destroy you know.." Bubbles just sort of chuckled as Mojo face palmed. "Umm, well it's in the name of ridding the planet of humans!" Mojo shouted before twiddling his thumbs looking sheepishly to the side. "| think it's misdirected rage." Bunny said. "If you really want to get revenge, you should have been planning attacks on animal testing laboratories and the people that work there." "Bunny!" Bubbles said frowning and shaking her head. "What, I'm just saying the logical route Mojo should have gone. Besides, they are cruel to animals and the government isn't going to change it." Bunny said sighing. "What do you mean the government won't change it?" Bubbles said raising an eyebrow looking slightly disgusted. "Well, the guys who run the government care more about money or what they can get themselves over who they're governing. Corporations have the most money, so really they're running the show." Bunny explained. "Robbing a bank is the dumbest way to steal other people's wealth. Becoming a broker on Wall Street and conning people into becoming broke is how it's done right." "Are you sure you're a good guy?" Mojo said raising an eyebrow at Bunny. "Yeah, sure why not." Bunny said yawning as she looked back down at the emergency room waiting area. "We should probably break in and check on Dexter. We need to get him out of here and find a good hide out until things blow over." "| totally agree Bunny. At this rate we'll be the most hated people in Townville." Bubbles said sighing. "We'll need disguises." Bunny said frowning in deep thought. "I think | know who can help us with that." Bubbles said smirking at Mojo. "Really?" Bunny said now turning toward Mojo with the same sly smirk. Bullet decided to join in on the fun as well. "What? Why are you looking at me like that for?" Mojo said looking confused. "Do you still have all those trench coats from when we first met you?" Bubbles said curiously. "No... and shamefully it was just one trench coat." Mojo said looking uneasy. "Eww, so you wore the same outfit everyday? Gross!" Bubbles said wrinkling her nose. "l'Il have to agree with Bubbles, that's just nasty." Bunny said holding her nose. "Uhh... no comment." Mojo said blushing in embarrassment. "Well crap, what now? Should we just bust in and take him?" Bubbles said rubbing her chin in deep thought. "We can't destroy the hospital though." Bunny said sighing. "I think at this point if we blast anything the media is just go on to demonize us even more." "Yeah, that wouldn't be good." Bubbles said looking worried. "Speak for yourself, everyone already hates me so | could not care less. That is to say | don't care what the media says about me." Mojo said yawning. "Good, if we get you a few ray guns will you go fetch Dexter for us?" Bunny said smirking back at Mojo. "Uggh, do | really have to?" Mojo said looking unenthusiastic now. "Well... if you don't want to be a mind slave yes." Bunny said poking Mojo in the forehead. "Fine, let's go to my lair and get the supplies we'll need." Mojo grunted. "We can't." Bunny said shaking her head. "And why not?" Mojo huffed. "I have by far the best weapons in Townsville." "Because our enemy is probably patrolling it." Bunny said. "I'm only thinking logically and it's better to be cautious." "You're wrong. I'm going home right now." Mojo said stomping toward the fire escape. "I'm going to follow Mojo home to make sure what you predicted isn't correct." Bubbles said putting a hand on Bunny's shoulder. "I bet you can come up with something. I'll be back soon." Bunny face palmed and then turned to Bullet. "Well Bullet buddy, looks like it's just you and me." Bunny said hopping down onto the sidewalk. A bunch of people gave her nasty stares, but they essentially did nothing. ‘Maybe | won't have trouble after all.' Bunny thought as she and Bullet went back in to the waiting room. "I'm here to pick up Dexter." Bunny told the nurse at the desk. "I'm sorry, but criminals are not allowed visiting rights." The nurse spoke snobbishly. "I'm not a criminal. Maybe you should check your vision. You may need glasses." Bunny said plugging her nose to make the same snobbish voice. Bullet simply watched in confusion. "Miss, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." The nurse said pointing towards the door. "No, | think I'll go get Dexter." Bunny said kicking the door down to the emergency rooms. She checked each room as the nurses and a few doctors gasped in surprise. She found Dexter sound asleep. He looked okay so she picked him up and walked out the door as police sirens could be heard in the background. Dexter woke up to see Bullet flying nearby, looking at him. "Umm... where are we going?" Dexter said confused. "Good, you're awake." Bunny said hopping into the park that surrounded Mojo's home. "How do you feel?" "I'm a bit lightheaded, but other than that I'm okay." Dexter said looking up at the sky to see Mojo's laire. On the top sat Buttercup and Blossom who looked more like robots than humans. "Who's house is that?" "That's my home." Mojo said frowning as he and Bubbles rejoined them. "I wonder what they're doing with it. Why would they guard my house like that?" "You've made a good amount of technology they would find useful Mojo. It's like a gold mine to them." Bunny explained. Just then a familiar luxurious limousine drove up to the bottom of the volcano top. The door swung open and out came Princess Morbucks in her deluxe Powerpuff Girls outfit. She looked uncomfortably back at the limousine standing in a rather proper poise as Ima Goodlady stepped out. "Ma'am... are you sure we have to do this? | know Mojo is male and all but..." Princess said awkwardly. "But nothing, our goal is to enslave all males. Don't you want to be a Powerpuff Girl?" Miss Ima Goodlady talked down to her in a slightly seductive voice as she traced a red painted finger nail down Princess’ cheek. "Well..." Princess said uncomfortably gulping "Yes... yes | do." "To complete our goal we need this volcano. Mojo's done all the work of finding a way to harness the energy, we just have to take it." Ima said grinning evilly. Bunny, Bubbles and Dexter all turned to stare at Mojo and all he could say was "Oh shit." To be continued... Chapter 18 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Dexter, Bunny, Bubbles, Mojo and Bullet all left not wanting to get caught and were now entering a nearby diner to discuss a plan of action. "| got Some money, so | can get us all lunch while we figure out what plan we should take." Bunny said digging out a wallet. "And how did you acquire such funds?" Mojo said raising an eyebrow at her. "I'm lazy at making money, but I'm not dishonest. All my money comes from a few pinball machines | have around this city." Bunny said showing Mojo a few rolls of quarters. "Fair enough.” Mojo said. Everyone sat at a booth as Bullet flew away to help his fellow forest friends. The waitress came by handing them menus. She got everyone's drinks quickly and left them to decide on what they wanted to eat. "We need to decide quickly on our menu choices. We came here to discuss our plan to come out of this mess alive." Dexter spoke seriously as he looked to see if the coast was clear. Bubbles flipped her menu shut after a second. "You're right, we should all just get bacon and eggs with toast." Bubbles said before taking a sip of her water. "That's something | can agree to." Mojo said as Bunny looked at her menu anyways. "Eggs, bacon and toast are fine for breakfast... but isn't this lunch time?" Bunny said slightly annoyed. "Doesn't matter, this diner serves breakfast all day." Bubbles argued back. "Children please! Let's all be adults! Do we want to save Townsville or not?" Mojo spoke up. "Mojo is correct, therefore we will all have chili cheeseburgers and fries." Dexter announced. "That'll give us all bad breath though!" Bunny sighed. "We need all the energy we can get to fight, besides | have some breath mints back at home we can have when we're done." Bubbles chirped in cheerfully. "Well... bad breath... okay." Bunny said looking at the salt shaker. Picking it up she threw some salt over her right shoulder. "Why did you just throw salt in our booth seat?" Mojo groaned up at Bunny who blushed embarrassingly. "Uhh... for good luck?" Bunny explained awkwardly. "You should try a rabbit's foot instead." Mojo said taking a sip of water. "While we're at it | may as well get a monkey's paw so | can have some wishes granted." Bunny said looking a little offended. "Ah... did | say rabbit's foot? | meant four leaf clover. Yeah... that's what | meant." Mojo said nervously looking away from Bunny. "Jeez, what did Mandark do to you? You should just relax Mojo. I'm not really going to chop off your hand. Trust me mkay?" Bunny said letting a hand rest on his shoulder making Mojo jump a little in surprise. "Could you resist from making any contact with me?" Mojo said annoyed yanking himself away from her touch. A waitress turned the television on just then. Bell and Deedee sat in what looked to be a doctor's office. They were both dressed in nurse uniforms and sat and behaved as if they were royalty. "We've grown so much as women once we joined the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad. | couldn't imagine a day without looking to them for advise." Deedee said looking dearly down at Bell who smiled lovingly back up at her. "You said it big sis, thanks to the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad our hearts have been mended and now we're an inseparable team." Bell almost sang beautifully back. "I think I'm gonna be sick." Mojo said looking at the television screen painfully as he held his stomach. "Yuck, what the hell happened to them?" Bunny said as she crinkled her nose, looking disgusted. "They did the same thing to them that we saw with Buttercup and Blossom." Dexter said face palming. "Only since they don't have powers they have to find some other use for them. | can't believe this." "So they don't have super powers. That's good right?" Bubbles said looking confused. "Maybe not, but they still have the power to manipulate and trick the public. They're on television Bubbles... so think of how many people are watching them." Dexter said with a deep frown as he rested his hands on her shoulders. "Are you ready to take your orders?" The waitress said as she came back with a pad and pen. "We'll all have chilli cheese burgers and fries." Dexter blurted out before anyone else could speak a word. "Wonderful." Mojo said sarcastically. "That is to say it's not wonderful. Why are these new villains getting the citizens of Townsville to become fans of them if they are indeed villains?" "Haven't you ever heard of the phrase 'there is power in numbers' Mojo? If the whole town is blindly following them they've got the upper hand over us." Dexter said irritably. "Hundreds of blind followers of anything can turn dangerous. Even with something as cute as ponies!" "Ponies are fine, leave them alone." Bunny said as the waitress came and served them their food. "Yeah, | guess ponies aren't too bad." Dexter said as he yawned a bit. "At least they seem to preach about friendship and acceptance. | don't think it's Action Hank approved though. Too many bad memories about scolding hot cinnamon oat meal." "Probably not." Bubbles said getting the ketchup for her fries. "So we don't want the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad to become popular right? That means we need to give them a bad image. Once any organization gets a bad name it's all down hill from there." "Something tells me we're going to need a camera and the right situation." Bunny said as she scarfed one fry after another. "They're probably thinking of ways to set us up too, so we really gotta watch our backs. Mojo, you're going to have to redeem your name if you want to stay alive. That means volunteering and charity work." "But... but | don't want to be nice to the people..." Mojo said as he gave Bunny puppy dog eyes. "You're my lacky now and what | say you do, you're going to do." Bunny said playing with her straw. "Wait, who says I'm your lacky?" Mojo said slightly annoyed. "| did, don't worry you'll be fine under my guidance." Bunny said rubbing to top of Mojo's head affectionately. "Oh hell, you can be my apprentice. How's that?" "Slightly better." Mojo mumbled. Just then a young, attractive blond waitress brought them their food and winked at Dexter making his eyes widen and his jaw drop. Her breasts were being pushed to their limit out of her shirt and seeing this Bubbles face grew slightly bright red and angry. "Here's your burgers." The waitress said seductively. "Is there anything else | can fetch for you?" "You could ‘fetch’ us our bill." Bunny said placing a hand over Mojo's eyes. "Aren't you just the little ray of sunshine." The waitress snapped making a snobby face. "That's why in dark situations | control the flash light ma'am." Bunny said keeping her hand over Mojo's eyes. The waitress left and Bubbles looked at Dexter sternly which made him look embarrassed. "Why were you looking at her like that?" Bubbles said in an annoyed tone. "| didn't mean to... she was just..." Dexter said blushing in embarrassment. "| wouldn't get too mad at him Bubbles. He's a guy and she was dressed like a slut." Bunny said taking her hand off of Mojo's eyes. "You wasted your time putting your hands on my eyes because of a human slut?" Mojo said irritated. "Hey, you never know." Bunny said yawning. "Is it always this exhausting in this town?" "Yeah, there's always some form of bad guy trying to invade or steal stuff." Bubbles said as she ate her food. They all ate quietly, Bunny paid the bill and they left going back to Dexter's Laboratory. "It's kind of strange. Why do they even need a power supply like Mojo's home?" Bunny said rubbing her chin. "| bet they're building something." Dexter said sighing. "With all villains it's all about getting the power source." "Dexter is correct, but what would a group like that even build that is to say what would they even be capable of creating?" Mojo said deeply in thought. "The question isn't if they can do it, but can they force someone else to do it." Dexter said suddenly as he started sprinting for Bubbles house. "Where are we going?" Bubbles said flying after him. "Professor... Utonium... Danger..." Dexter huffed out as they entered the Powerpuff home. The place was trashed with only a mirror intact. Dexter opened the door to the basement only to find an empty room that used to bea laboratory. Dexter turned to Bubbles looking worried as she looked shocked and scared. He took her in his arms comforting her as Bunny and Mojo caught up. "Well shit, looks like we have one more person to save." Bunny said picking up a broken test tube. "| don't want to save him..." Mojo said looking at the empty laboratory. "Give me a good reason as to why you won't help." Bunny said looking down at Mojo menacingly. "Because he mutated me in an experiment." Mojo said pointing to his brain. "That's not the story | heard." Bunny said grabbing Mojo's cape and dragging him with her. "You're helping. Dexter, we're probably going to need to break into Mojo's house to see what's going on. Do you have ANY invisibility technology?" "No... but something tells me I'll need to start building some now..." Dexter said as he looked Bubbles in the eyes. "Dear, we're going to need to go back to my laboratory." Bubbles wiped the tears from her eyes and nodded as they left for the one thing that would be their last hope. DEXTER'S LABORATORY! To be continued... Chapter 19 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Dexter, Bubbles, Mojo Jojo and Bunny began their walk over to Dexter's Laboratory. The house seemed eerily quiet even as the water sprinkler was making it's little noises. "| say we build a giant robot and start smashing things apart! That is that say we should create a robot to destroy personal and public property." Mojo said giving off an evil laugh. "Umm... Mojo. | hate to tell you this, but... if we're making a game plan to get your house back wouldn't that just destroy your house?" Dexter said raising an eyebrow. "Yeah..." Mojo said sighing and looking down in despair. "Why do you like destroying things so much anyway? A real genius would create new things like me." Dexter said pointing his thumb to his chest proudly. "If you're the better genius why do you hide it from your parents? That is to say why do you keep you laboratory a secret?" Mojo pointed out as he smirked. "Well... |... Deedee used to blow everything | made up... | had to hide it. I... guess it just became habit to keep it secret." Dexter said awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck. "She used to blow up your inventions?" Bubbles said surprised. "Yeah, but she grew out of it and now she understands.” Dexter said grinning in Bubbles direction. "Good thing she wasn't my sister. She would have been toast." Bunny said with a menacing smirk as she cracked her knuckles. "Not too many people could handle her. She even destroyed Mandark's laboratory a few times." Dexter said as he chuckled back at Mandark writhing in agony over his destroyed laboratory, but stopped as soon as he remembered that he was laughing at a dead person now. "Does she have super powers?" Bunny said raising an eyebrow. "No, she was just really clumsy and loved dancing." Dexter said as he opened the door to his home. "And where have you been? Well?" Dexter's mom turned on a lamp, angry with her eyes burning red. "Mother... what... a pleasant surprise. What's the matter?" Dexter said sweating bullets nervously and sounding confused. His mother had never acted like this before. "What do you mean what's the matter? You haven't done any of your chores today." His mother said venomously as she pointed at him with a shaking index finger. "Something here seems awfully familiar..." Bubbles said stepping ahead of Dexter. "And why did you decide to bring your friends along? You have homework! You've been slipping on your grades and we can't have that now can we?" His mother said getting up, looking more menacing. "You guys... this isn't my mom... she would never do this..." Dexter said slowly stepping back. "| got it." Bubbles said flying and grabbing her by the hands, letting her dangle in the air. "What are you doing?" Dexter said in surprise as his eyes went to the size of dinner plates. "Taking her somewhere safe for now. We need to get Mojo's house back so the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad can't take over any further than it has." Bubbles said zooming away. "We should probably look for your father..." Bunny said watching as Bubbles zoomed off. "I think you're correct Bunny." Dexter said walking to the kitchen. There he stood at the kitchen sink with a gloomy look on his face as he washed dishes. "Father, why are you washing the dishes?" Dexter said in concern as he stepped next to his father. "Because | must..." His father said in a soft, sad voice. "But you work all day to put food on the table. It doesn't seem fair that you would have to do the household chores too." Dexter said as he began to dry the dishes off, putting them away. "a. 1..." His father looked depressingly down at the plate he was currently washing, confused as to what to say. "You're sitting down and taking a breather." Dexter said directing his father to the nearest chair. "But | need to get all the chores done..." His father said wearily. "No, you're sitting right there and resting. Bunny and Mojo can help me get this place cleaned up." Dexter said continuing to wash the rest of the dishes. "But... | don't want to clean someone else's house." Mojo whimpered. "That is to say | do not wish to perform maintenance on someone else's property." "Helping someone besides yourself isn't going to kill you Mojo dear." Bunny said getting out a broom and handing it to him. "I'll go dig up more cleaning supplies." Dexter finished the dishes, putting them neatly away. He poured a glass of water for his father setting it down. "Father, what happened here while | was away?" Dexter said patiently as he sat next to his father. "You're mother... she went grocery shopping. When she came back she didn't come back with any food. Said that | had to do everything from now on." Dexter's father said sighing. "We're going to make everything right, just wait father." Dexter said as he put a hand on his shoulder. His father merely looked up and gave him a small smile as Bubbles flew back in. "Where did you put my mother?" Dexter asked in surprise. "| put her in jail until we can figure out what to do with her." Bubbles said smiling awkwardly, scratching her head. "| guess that'll just have to do." Dexter said face palming. "If it happened to my mom it's probably happening to a bunch of other women." "Weird... | guess it's all the more reason we get to work." Bubbles said. "Good idea." Mojo said throwing the broom and dust pan down. "That's not what | meant..." Bubbles said picking them up and putting them away. "We need to go save the world father. Take it easy and be safe." Dexter said before he got up and went upstairs as his father stared blankly off into space. Entering the laboratory Dexter turned down a hallway of his inventions scratching his chin. "To get into Mojo's home without destroying it we'll need a way to disguise ourselves." Dexter said as he lead them toward a strange machine which was held up by something that looked like two giant tubes of lipstick. "Mojo, you step into the rule sixty-three machine first." "| don't know." Mojo said scratching the back of his neck. "It's safe, | promise. The only thing it will do is change your gender." Bunny said pushing Mojo inside. "When the process is finished you will look like a female chimpanzee." Dexter said as he typed up the commands as both Mojo's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "Wait... what?" Mojo said confused. "I feel this is not necessary." The machine turned on and a series of rings ran up and down around Mojo as his face turned into that of utter shock. Slowly as the final ring lifted Mojo was transformed into a female chimpanzee. The clothing changed to correspond with the change in gender. He now wore what looked like a dress and sweater that the local librarian would have worn proudly. "We can call you Mojicia again right?" Bubbles teased Mojo as he looked down at two new soft lumps on his chest. "Umm, sure." Mojo said squeezing his breasts curiously. "Mojo, stop being a pervert." Bunny said coming up to him... umm... her and elbowing her in the rib cage causing her to yelp in pain. "Welp, looks like it's my turn Bunny. To be honest I'm not sure why | even invented this machine." Dexter said as he climbed in and let Bunny start the machine this time. As the last ring began to rise Dexter noticed he was much taller than before. He walked out of the machine, now as tall as his sister. His red hair had grown down to his shoulders and now he was the proud owner of a teenage female body. "Should we use the machine too?" Bunny said pondering to herself. "It may be better not to." Dexter said scratching the back of her head. "The whole city seems to be getting programmed mentally to hate males." "You may want to think of a female name then." Bubbles pointed out snuggling up next to her. "You're right... but what kind of name could | possibly use?" Dexter pondered, trying not to look down at her breasts. "| know! We can call you Grace." Bunny chimed in. "Grace... you sure | look like a Grace?" Dexter said uncomfortably. "I think Donna may work. That is to say it's a nice name." Blurted out Mojicia AKA Mojo. "No... | think we need to let him fit in somehow. | think a great name would be Bertha, because that also starts with a B." Bubbles said brightly. "Yeah, | like that name!" Dexter said hugging Bubbles tightly, blushing at how his new female body felt against hers. "Looks like we need to come up with a plan for infiltration now that we have the means to do it. I'll go draw the blue prints for it right now." Dexter confined herself to her desk for the time being and the rest would have to find ways to make themselves useful. To be continued... Chapter 20 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Bubbles laid on Dexter's bed so she could rest her head. After all the things they had been through she wondered how much more they would need to go through to get things resolved. With the professor gone and the strange movement of the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad she wasn't sure if such a complicated problem could be resolved right away. Bertha came up still in her boy clothing and noticed Bubbles. "Hey, we should probably head downstairs and see how everyone's doing." Bertha said sitting next to her. "Yeah, while we're at it though you and Mojo will want to change into something different." Bubbles said rolling over in bed. "What? Why?" Bertha said looking down at her trusty lab coat. "If you're dressed the same way you always do they'll probably catch on." Bubbles said slightly tending to her hair as she sat up. "Hmm, you do have a point... Maybe if you don't mind... could we borrow somethings from your wardrobe?" Bertha asked timidly. "Yeah, | guess it wouldn't hurt anything." Bubbles said getting up to take a good long look at Bertha's new female body. "It'll take some work, but I think | can pull it off. | may need to steal some of my sister's clothes to get what | need though." "Oh man, well let's hope they don't get mad or anything." Bertha said as she laughed nervously. "Nah, they'll understand." Bubbles said as she gave Bertha a warm hug. Bertha hugged her back feeling a bit less awkward, even though the sensations of being female were still quite new. They headed downstairs to find Bunny and Mojo having tea with Bertha's father who looked half awake. "Finally, have you come up with a plan?" Bunny said as she dropped a few sugar cubes into her tea and started hunting for the milk. "Yes, we have. Me and Mojo will be dressing up in disguise, then we'll join the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad as new recruits." Dexter announced proudly. "Wait, why do | have to join them? That is to say why do | have to sign up to be a part of a community | don't wish to be apart of?" Mojo whined. "Because it will help you get your home back maybe?" Bunny said dully as she stirred her tea and took a sip. "Once we get your house back we should get to come over whenever we want. In fact | think I'll take one of your bedrooms." "Nonsense! You cannot live in my home, that is to say you do not have permission stay in my place of living for extended periods of time." Mojo grumbled. "What was that?" Bunny said now staring at Mojo with piercing eyes. "You need a mentor in your life anyways. Someone to guide you in the right direction. The way you were originally going got you under Mandark's command. I'm sure you don't want that again right?" "Well... no." Mojo said blushing in embarrassment as she rubbed her forearm looking the other way. "Let's not talk about that right now. | think Mojo has had enough stress as of late." Bubbles said flying by Mojo, rubbing her on the back. Mojo flinched slightly in surprise at Bubbles touch, but relaxed a little as she became aware there wouldn't be any fist pounding her face. "Are you ready Mojo?" Bubbles said with a calm smile. "Umm... ready for what exactly?" Mojo said as his eyes widened at Bubbles’ words. "For your makeover." Bubbles said as a grin flashed across her face. "Makeover?" Mojo said looking confused. "We have to get a change of wardrobe as a part of our disguises." Dexter explained pouring himself a cup of tea. "Ah, well are you ready Bertha?" Bunny said winking at Bubbles who giggled. "My body is ready!" Bertha exclaimed doing her best to do a sexy pose, but kind of failing as she lost balance and fell into the trash can next to her. Everyone had a good face palm moment and left for the Powerpuff girl's home. Bubbles began digging in all three closets, thumbing through each and every outfit. "Dexte... | mean Bertha, this outfit would be best for you." Bubbles said handing her a pastel pink business dress. The cuffs and collar had a stripe of black running along the hem. The skirt had a thick black stripe on the bottom of it. She got changed in the bathroom as Bubbles went to work on Mojo's outfit. Bertha came out blushing deeply. The skirt only went to her mid thigh which just wasn't something she had grown used to. "Bubbles... are you sure | need to wear this?" Bertha said timidly as she straightened her glasses. "Wow, yeah you look great!" Bubbles said giving a wink anda thumbs up making Bertha's face burn a deep red. "Uh, thanks | guess." Bertha said as she looked around at Mojicia. "Mojicia, take this and try it on." Bubbles said handing her a sleeveless, purple dress. There was a green ribbon that went around it and tied in the back. Mojicia took it looking at it in utter confusion as she went to change into it. "Let me help you with your hair dear." Bubbles said affectionately as she grabbed her hair care kit she kept on her dresser. Brushing Bertha's now much longer red hair, Bubbles combed down some bangs and put the rest of her hair into a tight bun. She found a matching bow to go on the back of the bun and got out a hair cutting kit. "Umm... you know how to cut hair?" Bertha said as her eyebrows shot up. "Yeah, I've gotten much better with hair over the years." Bubbles said taking up a comb and small clippers. "We're only doing your bangs though." Quickly and skillfully, Bubbles cut Bertha's bangs into a side swept shape. Combing them out and fixing them so they would stay out of Bertha's eyes, she stood back and looked at her with an expression of satisfaction. "You look like a girl." Mojicia grumbled coming into the room. "That's the point." Bertha said rolling her eyes slightly. "Purple looks good on you Mojicia." Bunny said popping in behind her. "| know." Mojicia said as she looked the other way. "But you should tie that ribbon in the back." Bunny said as she took by surprise as she tied ribbon in the back. "There isn't a whole lot we can do with Mojicia's hair since she doesn't really have any... We'll need to get a wig." Bubbles said looking at her dress. "We still have that wig you wore to that one slumber party if you want to wear it." "Woah Mojo! You wore a wig? You must be pretty secure about your gender." Bunny teased at her. "Shuttup! It wasn't like that!" Mojicia yelled as she blushed deeply turning her face completely red. Bubbles quickly found the wig and fixed it up on Mojicia's head. "There, now you're both ready for action." Bubbles said as she blushed a bit at her work, breathing a sigh of relief. At last they could finally leave to get Mojo's house back and save Townville from the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad. To be continued... Chapter 21 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Bubbles, Bertha, Mojicia and Bunny were walking to Mojicia's home. Bertha had taken the liberty to take a back pack and stock up ona few things she would need. "They're probably putting your laboratory to full use Mojicia." Bertha said straightening her glasses as they continued walking. "We can expect a number of their minions to be working very hard there, what with pulling off their agenda and all." "But... that is not right of them to use my laboratory that is to say it is not appropriate for them to find purpose for my possessions without my express permission!" Mojicia said as she sighed. "It's may not be what is right, but it is happening | can assure you. You'll live. I've had to put up with that for ten years before | had any peace in my laboratory." Bertha said giving her a sympathetic smile. "And it always started off with my sister saying ' ooohhh what does this button do ?' Or just her being reckless and blowing something up in both our faces." Mojicia cringed as she imagined it. "Your sister sounds like she was a real tyrant that is to say she sounds like the opposite of that which is good to be around." Mojicia said, looking tired just thinking about it. "Growing up with siblings can be really annoying at times, but in the big picture of things I'm still glad | have one." Bertha said thoughtfully. "And now it's up to me to save her." Bertha looked up at Mojicia's observatory, determination lingered in her eyes. "And we're going to save our sisters." Bubbles said towards Bunny. "Hell yeah!" Bunny said with a smirk as they fist pumped. "Welp, looks like we should head on inside Mojicia ." Bertha said straightening her glasses and taking a deep breath. "Yes, | suppose we should that is to say we should commence to entering my home." Mojicia gulped deeply, but still had a determined look in her eyes. "You may want to change the way you speak and act while we're in there. They may get suspicious if you're still acting like you." Bertha said giving a slight cough and nudging Mojicia in the ribs. "Uggh, yes... okay." Mojicia said looking slightly annoyed. Walking up to the stair case they were instantly greeted by Blossom and Buttercup. "Greetings young ladies. Do you have an invitation to visit Madam Sedusa?" Blossom said in an authoritative tone. "We're glad for you're enthusiasm to come here, but you really do need an invitation." Buttercup said cracking her knuckles and smirking mischievously. "Where and how would we get an invitation?" Bertha said already looking concerned. "We're just two scientists looking to pitch in for the greater good." "You want to give us your brilliant minds for our cause? We're touched by this." Sedusa said walking down the steps, standing in between Buttercup and Blossom. She wrapped her sharp claws gently around both of their shoulders as if to say they were her property and then let go. She came up to them and put her forefinger and thumb under Bertha's chin, lifting her face up to get a better look at her. Bertha blushed deeply as she complied, not wanting to offend. "Yes... | think you'll make a wonderful star attraction to our cause." Sedusa said smirking as she eagerly went over to Mojicia to examine her. "Don't fight it." Bertha whispered to her with a serious tone in her voice. "| suppose you'll do." Sedusa said casually as she turned away from them to look at the city of townsville with lustfully greedy eyes. "We have to get every drop of energy we can. | won't tolerate failure." "Yes ma'am." Bertha said nodding in agreement. "And what about you?" Sedusa said looking at Mojicia who could also see Berth peering over to her expectantly now. "Yes ma'am." Mojicia said nodding her head, looking nervous. "Good girl, obedience will be key to our success." Sedusa said patting them both on the heads. Berta couldn't help but feel nauseated at Sedusa's touch. "Now... what are your names?" "I'm Bertha ma'am." Bertha said politely, giving a charming little bow. "And this partner of mine is Mojicia." Mojicia merely blushed and gave a nervous smile. "You'll both need training. It's not that you're both incompetent... it's just we have a sort of... style of doing things." Sedusa said smirking with her blood red lips. "Understood ma'am, where is the first place we should go?" Bertha said attentively standing slightly in front of Mojo. "You'll need to go to the library and ask for 'A Manual of Pedagogics' by Putnam. After you've found it and picked it up from it's shelf the way will open." Sedusa said clamping her greedy fingers around Bertha's shoulder, winking down at her. Dexter gulped and blushed a little nodding her head. "We'll do that right away ma'am." Bertha said politely. "Good, but to make sure you won't pull a fast one on us | think it might be good if Blossom went with you two. Three people with bright minds are better than two." Sedusa said smirking slightly. "Well, | guess having a pair of extra hands couldn't hurt." Bertha said looking casual about the whole thing. "Isn't that right Mojicia?" "W-w-well yeah... | guess it could'nt hurt." Mojicia said looking a bit sweaty under the collar. "I'm glad you see it that way." Blossom said floating nearby. Her presence seemed even more menacing than it did before. Bertha looked at Mojicia giving her a reassuring nod. "Don't worry, you'll be fine. We just need to go to the library." Bertha said this with a sure look in her eyes. She seemed to calm down a little more as they started walking. Blossom followed them in midair as they made their way. "So Blossom, have you been serving under the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad for very long?" Bertha asked trying to stir up small talk. "Ever since | can remember..." Blossom said looking as if she were trying to remember something. "Do you like working for them?" Bertha asked her in a polite, sincere tone. "Yes, | love it. Why wouldn't | like it?" Blossom lashed out scaring Mojo slightly. "If it's so great... why are you getting so defensive?" Bertha questioned her with a soft smile and patient look in her eyes. "You know I have a great amount of experience and I'm great at making any job personally rewarding. | can help you if you want." Dexter lied. "You know, that might be a good idea." Blossom said flying closer to Bertha before landing. "I'm glad you think so." Bertha said happily looking that they had already turned a few corners as she searched a few of her inside pockets to her coat. "Mojicia, how happy have you been under my guidance?" "Oh, superbly happy!" Mojicia said nervously, looking confused now. Bertha took only a second to whip out a dart gun shooting a tranquilizer dart into Blossom's thigh. Her shocked expression was followed by her passing out on the sidewalk. "We'll need to take care of her first now." Bertha said picking Blossom up, throwing her over her shoulder. "Yeah, that was kind of a dirty move but brilliantly pulled off." Mojicia said nodding, still looking nervous. "Are you sure you're a good guy?" "Yeah, I'm sure. Sometimes there are no other options but to resort to the dirty moves though." Bertha said as they entered her home. "We'll be taking out the brain programming chip from her skull. That'll be a pretty delicate operation." "How long do you think that'll take?" Mojicia said in a concerned tone as she looked at her watch. "Hmm... maybe an hour at most." Dexter said giving Mojo a thumbs up. "We're holding Blossom's life in our hands so we'll need to be extra careful. If we lose her it could tip the scale in Sedusa's favor." And with that they took Blossom straight to the operating table. Bertha got out her surgery tool set making Mojicia's face go pale and eyes go wide as she realized that she would be performing surgery on a living organism. She hadn't signed up for this, but it was on her plate to deal with now. Bertha on the other hand seemed more and more confident with every move she made. Even as she started drawing the pattern she would be cutting into there was a determined grin showing up on her lips as she reached for her scalpel. To be continued... Chapter 22 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Bertha (A.K.A. Dexter rule 63) patiently lifted Blossom's bangs and marked the places she would be cutting into. Mojicia stood by sweating out beads in anticipation. The operating table didn't help as it was bright and warm. "Are you sure we have to do it this way?" Mojicia said tugging at her collar nervously. "Yes, if we don't want her to wake up and kill us this is the only way. Why are you so scared anyways?" Bertha said skeptically. "You attack the town with your giant machines on a weekly basis so | was sure you'd have a stronger stomach for this sort of thing." Bertha said slightly annoyed as she cut into Blossom's skin with the scalpel, proceeding with the surgery. "You do have a point, it's just that this is just more... up close and personal." Mojicia said cringing as Bertha carved her way into Blossom's skull. "Found it." Dexter said picking out a capsule shaped piece of glass that housed a microchip. There was a three pronged plug at the end that had been inserted into her brain. "Holy shit... what the hell is that?" Majicia said looking slightly sick. "It's the brain reprogramming microchip. Simmer down. It's going to be okay." Bertha said putting the microchip into a dish on a nearby table. "I'll be doing some research on that chip later." Bertha managed to close Blossom's head back up and skillfully stitch her skin back in place. "She'll need to keep that area dry for a while, but it should heal without any scarring." Bertha said as she wiped the sweat off her brow. "What do we do next?" Mojicia asked looking timid. "While we wait for Blossom to wake up we see just what's on this chip." Bertha said picking up the chip with a pair of tweezers. "Be a dear and go brew us a pot of tea." Mojicia looked slightly annoyed, but went to the kitchen anyways and filled the kettle on the stove with water, put it on the burner and turned it on. Getting a tea pot out she looked in the cabinets only to find some earl grey tea bags. She put a few of the tea bags into the tea pot as she thought to herself, reflecting on the events that lead up to where she was now. Sitting down she sighed, feelings of surprise that she was even saved still lingered. "| got bored and came back, so what's up?" Bunny said taking a seat next to Mojicia making her jump a little. "Ah, well Dexter... err... Bertha removed a mind control chip from Blossom's brain. She's recovering in the lab right now." Mojicia said getting out a tray. "They put a microchip in her brain?" Bunny said looking puzzled. "I didn't know something like that could be done." "Well, the mecha ninja nurse squad figured out how." Mojicia said looking concerned. "So what are you doing here?" Bunny said as she tilted back in her chair. "Waiting for Bertha to finish her research on the mind control chip and Blossom to wake up. We need Blossom so we can fool the people in the mecha ninja nurse squad." Mojicia said. The kettle started whistling and Mojicia got up quickly taking it off the burner. She poured the steaming hot liquid into the teapot and set the trey with cups, spoons, sugar and cream. "Let's head back to Dexter's Laboratory and see what's happening.” Mojicia said as she took the tray with her. "Yeah, I'm curious so lets." Bunny said as she hopped ahead. Mojo followed closely behind as they entered the laboratory. Dexter had found a device to plug the chip into converting the information into his computer. A window popped up titled Lala Vava Powerpuff Control Operating System. In the folder there was a rather malicious looking Blossom face staring at them. Bertha cracked her knuckles as sweat started to seep from her forehead. "It's an operating system." Bertha said grimly. "They had to custom write this program for each person they installed this chip into. That means we'll have to physically operate on everyone who's been brainwashed." "Holy shit, are you serious." Bunny said looking shocked. "This is bad." Bubbles said looking nervously at Bertha. "We really have to operate on all of them?" Mojicia said cringing. "Yes, we have to operate on every last one." Bertha said looking at Mojicia frowning deeply. "| could help too if you'd like." Bunny said looking a little too excited. "| believe you can be a great help to us." Bertha said nodding and giving Bunny a thumbs up. "Uggh, my head hurts." Blossom said as she entered the room. "I'm glad you're up. We need to get to the library right away." Bertha said turning her chair towards Blossom. "What's at the library?" Blossom said feeling the bandage under her bangs. "Also..what happened to me?" "The mecha ninja nurse squad had somehow implanted a brainwashing chip inside your skull. We had to move swiftly and remove it. You may thank me later." Bertha said straightening her glasses. "Ah... thanks." Blossom said looking surprised. "I thought they were supposed to be doing good for the community?" "It's true that they do claim that, but they use that as a cover I'm afraid." Bertha said with a grim look shaking her head. "They really seem to be more interested in controlling the city." "Ah, well if that is the case I'm ready to go when you are." Blossom said as she floated off the floor. "I'm ready, are you Mojicia?" Bertha said turning to the monkey in the room. "My body is ready." Mojicia said giving Bertha a thumbs up. "Should me and Bunny tag along?" Bubbles inquired hugging Bertha from behind. "As much as I'd like you to, it might give us away if you did." Bertha said, standing up to give Bubbles a deep loving kiss and she held her in her arms lovingly. Bubbles kissed back hugging back longingly. Everyone else just sort of awkwardly watched the lesbian tongue wrestling. Soon afterwards Blossom, Bertha and Mojicia left for the library, prepared to infiltrate and destroy the matriarchy. To be continued... Chapter 23 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Bertha (A.K.A. Dexter rule 63) patiently lifted Blossom's bangs and marked the places she would be cutting into. Mojicia stood by sweating out beads in anticipation. The operating table didn't help as it was bright and warm. "Are you sure we have to do it this way?" Mojicia said tugging at her collar nervously. "Yes, if we don't want her to wake up and kill us this is the only way. Why are you so scared anyways?" Bertha said skeptically. "You attack the town with your giant machines on a weekly basis so | was sure you'd have a stronger stomach for this sort of thing." Bertha said slightly annoyed as she cut into Blossom's skin with the scalpel, proceeding with the surgery. "You do have a point, it's just that this is just more... up close and personal." Mojicia said cringing as Bertha carved her way into Blossom's skull. "Found it." Dexter said picking out a capsule shaped piece of glass that housed a microchip. There was a three pronged plug at the end that had been inserted into her brain. "Holy shit... what the hell is that?" Majicia said looking slightly sick. "It's the brain reprogramming microchip. Simmer down. It's going to be okay." Bertha said putting the microchip into a dish on a nearby table. "I'll be doing some research on that chip later." Bertha managed to close Blossom's head back up and skillfully stitch her skin back in place. "She'll need to keep that area dry for a while, but it should heal without any scarring." Bertha said as she wiped the sweat off her brow. "What do we do next?" Mojicia asked looking timid. "While we wait for Blossom to wake up we see just what's on this chip." Bertha said picking up the chip with a pair of tweezers. "Be a dear and go brew us a pot of tea." Mojicia looked slightly annoyed, but went to the kitchen anyways and filled the kettle on the stove with water, put it on the burner and turned it on. Getting a tea pot out she looked in the cabinets only to find some earl grey tea bags. She put a few of the tea bags into the tea pot as she thought to herself, reflecting on the events that lead up to where she was now. Sitting down she sighed, feelings of surprise that she was even saved still lingered. "| got bored and came back, so what's up?" Bunny said taking a seat next to Mojicia making her jump a little. "Ah, well Dexter... err... Bertha removed a mind control chip from Blossom's brain. She's recovering in the lab right now." Mojicia said getting out a tray. "They put a microchip in her brain?" Bunny said looking puzzled. "I didn't know something like that could be done." "Well, the mecha ninja nurse squad figured out how." Mojicia said looking concerned. "So what are you doing here?" Bunny said as she tilted back in her chair. "Waiting for Bertha to finish her research on the mind control chip and Blossom to wake up. We need Blossom so we can fool the people in the mecha ninja nurse squad." Mojicia said. The kettle started whistling and Mojicia got up quickly taking it off the burner. She poured the steaming hot liquid into the teapot and set the trey with cups, spoons, sugar and cream. "Let's head back to Dexter's Laboratory and see what's happening.” Mojicia said as she took the tray with her. "Yeah, I'm curious so lets." Bunny said as she hopped ahead. Mojo followed closely behind as they entered the laboratory. Dexter had found a device to plug the chip into converting the information into his computer. A window popped up titled Lala Vava Powerpuff Control Operating System. In the folder there was a rather malicious looking Blossom face staring at them. Bertha cracked her knuckles as sweat started to seep from her forehead. "It's an operating system." Bertha said grimly. "They had to custom write this program for each person they installed this chip into. That means we'll have to physically operate on everyone who's been brainwashed." "Holy shit, are you serious." Bunny said looking shocked. "This is bad." Bubbles said looking nervously at Bertha. "We really have to operate on all of them?" Mojicia said cringing. "Yes, we have to operate on every last one." Bertha said looking at Mojicia frowning deeply. "| could help too if you'd like." Bunny said looking a little too excited. "| believe you can be a great help to us." Bertha said nodding and giving Bunny a thumbs up. "Uggh, my head hurts." Blossom said as she entered the room. "I'm glad you're up. We need to get to the library right away." Bertha said turning her chair towards Blossom. "What's at the library?" Blossom said feeling the bandage under her bangs. "Also..what happened to me?" "The mecha ninja nurse squad had somehow implanted a brainwashing chip inside your skull. We had to move swiftly and remove it. You may thank me later." Bertha said straightening her glasses. "Ah... thanks." Blossom said looking surprised. "I thought they were supposed to be doing good for the community?" "It's true that they do claim that, but they use that as a cover I'm afraid." Bertha said with a grim look shaking her head. "They really seem to be more interested in controlling the city." "Ah, well if that is the case I'm ready to go when you are." Blossom said as she floated off the floor. "I'm ready, are you Mojicia?" Bertha said turning to the monkey in the room. "My body is ready." Mojicia said giving Bertha a thumbs up. "Should me and Bunny tag along?" Bubbles inquired hugging Bertha from behind. "As much as I'd like you to, it might give us away if you did." Bertha said, standing up to give Bubbles a deep loving kiss and she held her in her arms lovingly. Bubbles kissed back hugging back longingly. Everyone else just sort of awkwardly watched the lesbian tongue wrestling. Soon afterwards Blossom, Bertha and Mojicia left for the library, prepared to infiltrate and destroy the matriarchy. To be continued... Chapter 24 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. The tea was served and the Gangreen Gang stood by as Olga stood in front her computer screen pointing to different sections of the blue prints she had drawn of the domed city utopia. Bertha, Blossom and Mojicia sipped their tea quietly while listening to every detail of Olga's plans. Blossom would occasionally give the Gangreen gang a sympathetic glance. "We won't need to do much building, because most of the buildings here will suffice. There is damage that will need repairing from all the past fights though, but we're going to be forcing all of the criminals to do the back breaking labor it'll take to fix that." Olga finished as she sat back in her chair. "Oh, and one more thing. If you find a certain boy genius named Dexter help me capture him won't you? | think he'll make a nice lap dog." At this Bertha's face grew slightly pale. "Yes ma'am." Bertha said as she grabbed her cup of tea sipping it to hide her face. "Is there anything you'd like us to do ma'am?" Blossom asked politely as she intently poured more tea into Bertha's cup.. "You can all report to the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad's volcanic headquarters. I'll send word to Sedusa that you're in." Olga said as she took out her smart phone and started to compose a text. "There are transport pods over by where you dropped in. All you need to do is get in and press the green button and it'll take you where you need to go... oh... and Blossom?" "Yes ma'am?" Blossom asked curiously. "If you betray me it's not your life on the line. Just thought | would mention that." Olga said with an evil smirk. "Who's life..." Blossom trailed off looking confused. "Bell and Deedee will be waiting to greet you all at the entrance. Good luck." Olga said turning back to her smart phone. Blossom, Bertha, Mojicia and the Gangreen gang all piled into one of the transport pods and fastened their safety belts before it took off. "She's blackmailing us." Blossom sighed looking slightly desperate. "Yeah, well at least you're not slaves." Ace spat at her. "What are you going to do with us?" "This situation is complicated and you're not making it any better. If you would simply cooperate I'm sure there are logical answers too all the situations unfolding at this time." Bertha said stoically. "That's easy for you to say in a system that's rigged to serve only women." Ace huffed at her grudgingly. "If only you knew." Bertha said rolling her eyes as she peered at the approaching volcano. As the pod landed and the door opened up Sedusa stood smugly by. "| see you have some minions in tow. They'll make great work hands for all the repairs needing to be done." Sedusa said smirking deeply as she looked Ace over. "Did Olga give these things to you?" "Ah, Yes she did." Blossom said looking wearily at them. "I'm afraid we'll need to keep them for now so we can get a few tasks done for her though." "Such a shame, | bet they'll fetch a really good price." Sedusa said as they all began walking up to Mojo's house. "I'll tell you what, I'll give you a clean one hundred thousand for Ace." As she said this Ace's eye brows shot up a bit as he began to sweat. "We'll have to think on it, won't we Bertha?" Blossom said patting Bertha on the back and yanking Ace out of the way with a one handed hug. "Ah... yeah... err... sure | guess." Bertha said nervously as she nodded. Mojicia just sort of awkwardly followed behind everyone. "I'm not some piece of property to be sold and bought like furniture or a car or television set." Ace mumbled angrily. "But you are." Sedusa hissed gleefully as they climbed the stairs. As they opened the door and went inside Princess sat with Bell and Deedee around a table, snacking on tea and cookies. "I'm back ma'am, how are things going?" Blossom said as she, Bertha and Mojicia took seats at the table. "These two ladies with me are top notch genius scientists. They'll be helping Olga out with some projects | believe." "Nerds are sooo annoying, but they're useful so | can't say no." Princess said as she threw a whole cookie in her mouth. "What do you think Deedee? Belle?" Bertha said hopefully. "A sister who follows the laws is a friend who helps the cause." Deedee said almost in a brainwashed tone. "If you care about your fellow sister you won't give aid to a mister." Belle said with the same tone making Bertha's eyebrow shoot up. "They're programmed to obediently spout propaganda. It was Olga's idea." Princess said boredly as she waved her hand in front of Deedee's face and shoved a cookie in Belle's mouth. "They're such a drag this way though. It was much more fun when they were trying to fight us." "What do you think of Olga's big plan to enslave half the population?" Blossom said casually picking up a cookie. "Not exactly what | had in mind, but a fun idea no less." Princess said as she smirked as though she had a few ideas. "With a domed city we'll need to have labor directed towards food production." Bertha said, looking as though she were thinking carefully. "No doubt about that." Princess said eating another cookie. "Olga said you guys were cool so I'm taking her word for it. If there's something you need to be doing right now you guys can go ahead and get to it." "Uh... alright, well thank you very much and we hope we'll see you again soon." Blossom said as she signaled to everyone. "Bertha, Mojicia, Gangreen gang, it's time to go." Blossom led everyone outside, Ace still looking angry and robbed of his dignity. Together they headed back towards DEXTER'S LABORATORY! To be continued... Chapter 25 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Blossom, Bertha, Mojicia and the Gangreen Gang made their way back to Dexter's home on foot. Everywhere they walked they only saw other women with the occasional male helping out with something. "Weird, where did all the men go?" Blossom said raising an eyebrow. "By my calculations a good number of them are either imprisoned, hiding or fleeing." Bertha said peering closely at one of the few men to see a slave collar. "I believe the ones fleeing and hiding saw what was happening ahead of time in one fashion or another." "We're here." Mojicia said as they approached the house. "I really hope this situation doesn't last much longer that is to say | would really like it if it would end quickly." "Say... you're familiar..." Ace said scratching his head as he turned his gaze to Mojicia. "Have we met?" "Let's say we haven't." Mojicia said looking away as Ace raised an eye brow and straightened his sunglasses. They entered the house to find Bubbles and Bunny baking cookies. Bubbles looked surprised to see the Gangreen gang in their home, but then she say Bertha and ran up to her giving her a loving hug and kissed her deeply on the lips making the Gangreen Gang's eyes go to the size of dinner plates and their jaws dropped to the floor in shock as their cheeks turned tomato red. "| missed you." Bubbles said to Bertha. "And | missed you." Bertha said rubbing their foreheads together. "What are they doing here?" Bunny said placing the cookies down to cool on top of the stove. "They were enslaved by Olga. Do you see these collars they're wearing? Well we need to figure out how to remove them." Blossom said pointing to Ace's slave collar. "| hope those aren't the collars I'm thinking of." Bunny said walking up to Grubber to take a closer look as she furrowed her eyebrows. "Fucking shit all mighty, yes these are the collars. We have two options if we want to remove them. Number one option is we'll have to somehow recover the keys from whoever is holding onto them. Number two option is me and Bertha here figure out the best way to pick the locks of the collars without blowing their heads off their shoulders." "Wait, these collars do that?" Ace said frantically feeling the collar around his neck. "Don't fuck with it or that could trigger it to explode as well!" Bunny said slightly frustrated. "We can't take you guys out of town either, when you reach a certain..."border" it triggers the collar to explode as well." "Right, how do you know about those collars?" Bertha questioned Bunny. "Because | helped Mandark create those." Bunny said looking at Ace's collar with regret in her eyes. "I should be able to figure out how to remove them safely though." "You... but did you know this would happen?" Blossom said as she gasped looking shocked. "At the time | didn't even know Townsville existed or that Olga would have used them for the purpose she's using them for." Bunny said looking more closely at Ace's collar. She took at bobby pin to the lock and in a few seconds removed it, holding it in her hand Ace stared at it shocked. "Don't run away alright? If you do they're bound to put another collar on you." "Yeah..." Ace said sitting down as Bunny proceeded to remove the rest of the collars. "Should we think of recruiting them to our team?" Bertha said inquisitively to Blossom. "They're so useless though, look at them." Blossom moaned slightly as she pointed at the Gangreen Gang. Grubber picked his nose and ate it by licking it off. "Surely they have some skills or talents that could prove useful." Bertha said purposely a little loud so they'd hear. "We can s-s-s-sneak attack their minion-s-ss and capture them." Snake suggested. "With the right guidance they could prove useful in the final battle we're most likely going to end up fighting." Bertha said stroking her chin with her thumb and forefinger. "Well, they did do a great job and luring me and Bubbles into a trap once. | guess we could give them a chance." Blossom said reluctantly. "You guys will need a disguise anyways. Let's get moving to my laboratory so we can fix you up. While we're at it, Ace you're the leader right?" Bertha said as she grabbed a cookie and started nibbling away. "Well yeah I'm the leader." Ace said raising an eyebrow. "You'll want to rename your group something... more feminine for now." Bertha said as she started leading everyone upstairs into her room. "What the hell? Why?" Ace said looking confused as they all entered the laboratory behind the bookshelf. "Step into the machine and I'll show you." Bertha said pointing in the direction of the rule sixty three machine. "Fine, whatever." Ace said stepping into the machine as Bunny casually fired it up. In a few short minutes Ace had become a woman, her breasts pushing their way out of that tight sweater vest she instantly decided to take off. Her skin still looked green, but it had a softer look to it. Her hair had grown to shoulder length and she had taken on a more hour glass shaped figure. She stared down at her breasts in shock. "What the fuck did you just do to me?!" Ace shouted as she blushed squeezing her breasts. "Woah boss-sss-sss, you iss-ss-s hawt." Snake said out loud. "We just turned that Ace into a Queen." Bunny said smirking as she got the machine ready for another round. "Alright, who's next?" Bunny said turning towards the rest of the Gangreen Gang and nervously, one by one they all started to approach the rule sixty three machine. To be continued... Chapter 26 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. "You're not dead Ace, you're just... in a different shape now." Bunny said rolling her eyes as she freaked out a little more. "That's easy for you to say, you've never had any junk to lose downstairs!" Ace spat back at her. "Well at least this way you don't have to worry about electric slave collars going boom and making you lose the junk you have upstairs." Bunny said optimistically. "Mojo jojo seems to have kept all his... or rather her intelligence. Isn't that right Mojicia?" Bunny said nudging Mojicia in the ribs. "Wait, that's Mojo Jojo?" Queen said taking off her sunglasses looking in surprise. "Yes | am Mojo Jojo that is to say I'm incognito." Mojicia replied. All the other Gangreen gang members came out feminine as well and soon they were all given makeovers and new wardrobes. "What are the odds we'll end up killing Olga the same way we killed Mandark?" Bunny said curiously to Bertha. "I'm hoping we'll be able to settle this one more peacefully, but I'd estimate there is a twenty five percent chance of the same circumstance happening twice." Bertha said before yawning. "Since there is a huge population with slave collars on isn't there some central control unit where we could shut them all off?" "There is, but it's Olga's personal computer. She hardly ever leaves it unless it's to bathe or sleep." Bunny said looking as if she were thinking very hard. "Perhaps if we could put something undetectable in her drink that would put her straight to sleep..." "I've already bio engineered a sleep elixir to put people to sleep. It's derived from a stronger mutation of melatonin. It's tasteless and has no scent." Bertha said taking out a tiny bottle. "Excellent, | hope this means we'll have a shot and saving Belle, Deedee and Buttercup. | have to wonder where they're all at right now though." Blossom said sighing. "This whole ordeal has been exhausting, I'm not sure | can remember the last time | had a good night's sleep." "| know the feeling, | want to take a nap but I'm afraid I'll go into a coma at this point." Bertha said collapsing in a chair as she rested her forehead on her hands. "You know what? We're technically in the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad team. Shouldn't it be safe for us to get a good night's rest?" Bunny asked curiously. "I'll be okay..." Bertha said yawning. "Yeah... you'll be okay." Bunny said unconvinced. "We'll need to go visit Olga again, but the question is who will be the one to spike her drink?" Bertha said stroking her chin as she shifted her gaze towards Lil Arturo who with her new feminine form had renamed herself Lil Artina. "W... wait, me?" Lil Artina said looking as if she wanted to scramble away into the nearest hiding spot. "Yes you, you may be a bad guy but without you they're going to continue with their plans." Blossom said picking her up. "Bertha, do you have any invisibility technology that might help Lil Artina stay out of sight?" "Now that you mention it | do have something called a stealth boy." Bertha said digging through a few drawers, then lifting up a small device with a single button to press. "It only lasts for thirty seconds and it's one use so I'd say use it wisely. If you waste it don't worry. I'm Sure someone won't mind finding your decapitated corpse in the oven one day." "Yikes! It's that hard to come by huh?" Bunny said as her hair stood on end a little. "Let's just Say you can only find it at a few choice US army military bases." Bertha smirked as she handed the stealth boy to Lil Artina. "We're going to need to capture some fresh meat before we can visit Olga." Bunny said thinking out load eyeing Bertha. "He'll need to be someone she's looking for." "Wait... you don't mean..." Bertha said pointing to herself. "Yes boy genius, get back in the machine so we can use you as bait. Olga won't accept audience with us unless we've got something worth her time so you have to be that bait." Bunny said putting her foot down. "So wait, Bertha was originally a boy?" Queen said confused. "Yeah, he's Dexter boy genius... and he's also my boyfriend.” Bubbles said blushing. Bertha stood in the machine and became Dexter once again, but dressed in drag. "Welp, I'm going to go get a shower and get dressed." Dexter said leaving the laboratory. "I'll get a backpack for Lil Artina here." Bunny said patting her on the head. "I'll leave an air hole so you don't die or anything. Everyone is coming along on this, but we'll all be placed in strategic locations. Since Dexter will be a captor of war I'll most likely being the one hacking into her personal computer. The rest of the Gangreen gang can gaurd the library. Bubbles and Blossom, you need to look for our sister Buttercup. She's just as important. She's most likely still under mind control though so she'll need to be imprisoned. It's likely some fail safe devices were planted in Belle and Deedee so it'll be gravely important that | hack into the computer that controls the chips. I'll let Lil Artina out in the kitchen area as | get a snack, from there she'll need to sneak in and put the sleeping serum into her drink. Does everyone got that?" Bunny said looking a little out of breath. "Yep, we got it Bunny." Blossom said putting a hand on her shoulder giving her a confident smile. "Great, let's go save the world before bedtime." Bunny said witha wink as everyone left the laboratory, ready to take on any challenges the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad might throw at them. To be continued... Chapter 27 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. Blossom and Bubbles zoomed out of the window and out of sight as Bunny tied Dexter's hands behind his back. "Are you sure this is going to work?" Mojicia said with doubt in her eyes. "Like a charm if she's anything like her power hungry brother." Bunny said. "Now Lil Artina, you need to get into my backpack." Bunny said pointing to a backpack on the sofa of the living room. "Then it's sure to work then." Mojicia said cringing at remembering Mandark's mentorship. "Personally I'd prefer to just kill her, but | highly doubt anyone else would like that so permanent imprisonment will just have to work." Bunny said dully making everyone's eyebrows go up. "We'll be off to the library, we'll see you there." Queen said as she directed the other gangreen members out of the house. "See ya." Bunny said as she put on the backpack with Lil Artina in it. "Are you ready Mojicia? You may as well tag along since I'm mentoring you from now on." Bunny said grabbing a cookie from the kitchen and scarfing it down as they left. "Did you have to tie the rope so tight?" Dexter complained as he wriggled against her tight grip. "Just making sure she's convinced. She can be pretty skeptical, way more so than her brother was." Bunny said. Walking into the library Bunny, Dexter and Mojicia entered the secret entrance to Olga's laboratory. Olga sat at her desk with a half way full glass of iced tea typing away with a determined look on her face. Bunny's eyebrows raised as she noticed Belle and Deedee were sitting on the sofa, not doing anything except staring out into space with blank expressions like toy dolls. "Miss Olga, | have something here you may be interested in." Bunny said smirking as she shoved Dexter to his knees and lifted his face up by his hair. "It's Dexter, boy genius." "Hey! That hurts you bitch!" Dexter yelled angrily. Olga turned to look at him and grinned wickedly as she took off his glasses putting them down on her desk so she could look into his ocean blue eyes that were quickly filling with anger. "You just earned yourself a rank above Sedusa." Olga said cheerfully Opening a drawer in her desk before quickly snapping a slave collar on Dexter's neck making him gasp in fear. Feeling the scratchy collar SNAP around his neck slight sign of panic could be seen on his face. "You're a traitorous bitch you know that?" Dexter spat at Bunny. "And here | thought you were a genius." Bunny chuckled as she let go of Dexter's hair and hands. "I'm glad you know your place now short stuff." "I'll show you." Dexter said glaring as he looking over at Mojicia who looked like she was doing her best not to cringe at the situation. "Don't lose your head now sugar plum." Bunny said patting him on the head making Olga laugh. "You should come and sit by my chair like a good boy Dorkster." Olga said pointing to a spot on the floor by her chair. "We'll have some fun later, but right now | have work to do." "I'm going to go get a glass of water, I'll be right back." Bunny said leaving for the kitchen area. Going into the kitchen Bunny gently sat the backpack down and let Lil Artina out. "Hope you're ready to do your part in this." Bunny whispered as Lil Artina climbed out. "Yeah, I'm ready." Lil Artina whispered back with the sleep elixer and stealth boy in hand. "Impressive acting by the way." "Thanks." Bunny whispered as she left the room as she got her glass of water. +++++Meanwhile+++++ Olga watched as Bunny left for the kitchen. "| hope you're ready to start working on a few key projects, you'll be joining Professor Utonium." Olga said looking down with a cruel smile curling on her lips now. "But not before we've had some fun." "I'm afraid to ask..." Dexter said looking the other way. "You should be." Olga whispered in his ear and she bit on his ear lobe gently making him gasp as his eyes widened and his face turned red. Olga sat back up in her seat getting back to work. One minute later Bunny walked back into the room holding her glass of water as she sat between Belle and Deedee. "SO what's going on with these guys here?" Bunny asked taking a closer look at Belle noticing her eyes looked artificial. "They're synthetic copies of Deedee and Belle. Once they're operational they'll act and sound just like them. The audience watching them won't know the difference." Olga said turning towards Bunny as she got up enthusiastically. "Deedee and Belle are great themselves, but eventually the devices in their brains will kill them so | needed to make these so when they do go we'll be able to replace them." "Wow, sounds like you're really thinking of everything with this project." Bunny said impressed looking over at Mojicia as she casually rested her hands on the synthetic copy's shoulders. "Don't you think this is impressive Mojicia?" "Ah... yes." Mojicia said nervously as beads of sweat formed on her brow. "Don't mind her, she's really just shy. I'm taking her under my wing though so she's bound to learn a great deal." Bunny said taking a sip of her water as she saw a small plop in Olga's drink while she wasn't looking. "No worries, but tell me why you went out of your way to help me?" Olga said sitting down as she picked up her drinking glass. "Males are stupid, inferior versions of women and you're doing right to put them in their places." Bunny answered setting her glass down. "That's refreshing to hear." Olga said sipping her drink as she turned back to her computer only to pass out in her chair making Dexter's eyebrows go up. "Oh right... you were acting." Dexter said sheepishly as Bunny untied the rope on his hands. "Eh, the way you acted helped though." Bunny said placing Olga on the floor as she tied her hands and feet together hog style. "| still don't like having this collar on though." Dexter said annoyed as he sat down to Olga's computer and began looking for the program for the collars. "We'll need to do brain surgery on Deedee, Belle and Buttercup as soon as possible." Blossom and Bubbles had found Buttercup standing guard on the very top of Mojo's lair. "Hey Buttercup, how's things going here?" Blossom said landing by her sister. "There hasn't been much action as of late. It's almost like any Opposing forces to the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad aren't in the mood to fight." Buttercup huffed boredly. "We just recruited Bubbles, she'll help scout out any strays. It's too bad there's not much of a challenge left though. | was hoping to find something or someone who could put my current skills to the test." Blossom said punching her palm as she looked down on Townsville. "This almost makes me wish the Rowdyruff Boys would make a come back. I'd like to kick their asses from here to California." Bubbles said cheerfully. "Pfft, Fuck the Rowdyruff Boys. If they were here I'd get them in collars faster than Sedusa puts a boner on a man" Buttercup said bitterly as she spat off the rooftop. "It's a shame Mojo didn't create them again, I'm sure they'd make pretty awesome servants." Blossom said looking as though she were thinking deeply. "Perhaps if we found the recipe in his lair we might have a shot at getting some more... personalized slaves for our own houses when we get them." "Say, that's a pretty good idea." Buttercup said smirking maliciously as she rubbed her palms together. "I think I'd like Butch as a personal punching bag." "Then we should totally get moving for that recipe." Bubbles said as Blossom and Bubbles stood by to wait for Buttercup to make the first move. She moved ahead of them when Blossom took out a small bottle of chloroform and a dish rag, soaking the rag before she grabbed Buttercup from behind placing the rag over her mouth and nose. After a good ten second struggle Buttercup passed out and they took her back to Dexter's Laboratory. Blossom strapped her sister to the table making sure her bindings were secure. "What now?" Bubbles said wishing Dexter were there. "Now? We wait." Blossom said leaning back in a lab chair, looking as if she were drifting off to sleep. To Be Continued... Chapter 28 Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. "| got it!" Dexter said excitedly as his collar's light turned off and he carefully removed it. "I also turned off the devices in Buttercup, Deedee and Belle's brains. They should be fine now." "Olga really helped with that extra motivation didn't she?" Bunny said gently nudging Dexter in the arm giggling. "Yeah yeah." Dexter said waving his hand. "We need to figure out where to put her for now though." "Oh, | have an idea." Bunny said devilishly as she picked up Olga's body. "What are you doing?" Dexter said in surprise and confusion. "Oh, just a little payback! Nothing too bad, | just want to teach her a lesson in manners." Bunny said casually as she hopped back into the library with Olga under her arm like a sack of potatoes. "Note to self, don't get on Bunny's bad side." Dexter said to himself as he pushed his glasses back up his nose. He stood up from his chair and walked toward the synthetic copies of Belle and Deedee. He let his hand cup one of his sister's doppelganger's cheeks. It was soft and flesh-like making his eyebrows rise. He played around a little more looking on the back of her neck finding a red button that said "Power" underneath it. "This is probably a bad idea, but science says that we must question and test everything out to it's fullest potential." Dexter mumbled as he pressed the button. A ring of yellow light started glowing around doppelganger Deedee's sea blue irises. She blinked and sat up. "Hello sir, you've activated my power unit so I'm at your command." Doppelganger Deedee said as she gazed at him expectantly making him feel slightly awkward. "Ah... uh... find a way out of here for me... please?" Dexter said with uncertainty. "| will find a way out that is convenient for you." Doppelganger Deedee said in a friendly tone that seemed a bit scripted as she got up off the sofa. Leading Dexter over to a transportation pod, she opened the door and proceeded to wait until he got in. He sat down on one of the seats and looked at her expectantly until she sat beside him. Closing the door she pressed a sequence of buttons making them lift off through the trap door. "Where would you like to go?" Deedee said submissively. "| would like it if | could go home." Dexter said pointing to his house from the sky. "Request granted." Deedee said as she pressed the appropriate buttons to bring him home. They landed and Dexter went down to his laboratory where doppelganger Deedee followed him. "Wait, what? Hey Deedee, are you... feeling okay?" Blossom said looking surprised at the sight of the doppelganger. "She's a robot." Dexter said as he walked over to Buttercup undoing her bindings. "Wait! What are you doing?" Bubbles said in surprise. "| shut off her control chip so she should be fine. I'll need to surgically remove it though." Dexter said as he got to work. +++++Meanwhile======= Bunny had taken Olga to the digital prison Mandark had placed them in before and placed her into one of the tubes, hooking her up to the system. Going to a nearby computer she turned it on and started programming a new world. Finding a camera and microphone she hooked them up to the computer and sat back as she turned the monitoring screen on to look at what Olga was currently doing. She was in a blank nothingness looking confused as she walked forward. "So boring, we should add some spice to this masterpiece." Bunny said to herself as she typed in a few commands making a familiar environment pop up around Olga. There was only a bright red, metal beams placed together in the general shape of a building, several blue ladders leading to the top and a door that said exit at the top. Near the top there sat a giant gorilla holding a barrel over his head. He chucked it into a barrel of fire causing it to spawn a flame demon from hell's underwear drawer. "Woah, what the fuck is this?" Olga said climbing the nearest blue ladder to safety. "Hey there." Bunny said as a screen opened up in Olga's fictional world showing Bunny sitting at the desk eating pringles. "Hope you like games." "My brother will come save me, if not I'll make sure | kill him when | get out." Olga said smugly as she hopped a few barrels, climbing her way up. "That's a laugh, your brother's dead." Bunny said casually making a pringles duck face. "Wait... | knew his plan failed, but he died?" Olga said in surprise, getting to the top and exiting only to enter into another game. "Yeah, he was sucked into a black hole of deletion and became unalived in the very world you're in now. Don't worry though since this program isn't dependent on a supernatural beings life energy to keep it glued together." Bunny said looking to add new levels and challenges. Olga stood on a grassy plain with a shot gun in hand and an annoying dog that kept snickering at her. "Figures, there's no way | can convince you to just let me out is there?" Olga said shooting one duck after the other. "Sure there is, but you can't come out until you've learned your lesson." Bunny said cheerfully as Olga passed the next level only to end up in a dojo hall that seemed endless. One room connected to another and each room held a new, stronger Opponent. "What lesson am | even supposed to be learning?" Olga said looking up at Bunny frustrated. "You'll have to figure that out for yourself." Bunny said casually cleaning the dirt from underneath her fingernails. "But | don't wanna!" Olga said frustrated as she looked at the opponent ahead of her, not really Knowing what to do. "How am | supposed to even play this game?" "It's not a game, you're actually going to have to fight those guys. The video games were just too easy for you so | decided to switch things up a bit." Bunny said observing the way Olga moved. "You're lucky because | wanted to kill you, but Dexter and the rest of the Powerpuff Girls would have frowned on that so here we are." "But | don't wanna!" Olga whined sitting on the ground. "Did the men you enslave get a choice about what they wanted to do?" Bunny said looking expectantly at Olga. "No..." She replied looking worried now. "Am I going to die?" "No, you're not going to die. Just fight past these guys and I'll think about freeing you." Bunny said as she continued to watch. Olga just stared at her first opponent who was a mere purple fluffy monster as she broke out in a cold sweat. "Sucks being the one bullied doesn't it." Bunny said as she sat back. "I'll show you." Olga said finding a lead pipe. She charged the purple creature bashing in his head in causing brains to splatter on the walls. "Can | get a better weapon?" Olga complained. "Perhaps a minigun or at least pepperspray?" "There are other weapons, but you'll have to find them." Bunny said yawning. "Oh, but you do have one other option besides fighting.” "And what is that exactly?" Olga said tiredly searching for something better. "You become my student and follow every order | give you until | deem you fit to graduate. Mojo will be your peer and you'll work together to solve problems." Bunny said smirking just a little. "Fine." Olga said sighing. "I bet you disabled my slavery system anyways." "| didn't personally, but yes it's disabled." Bunny said cheerfully, but not really knowing if Dexter succeeded in disabling the program. Typing in a command Olga woke up and exited the tube. "Did you have to put me through that pointless adventure?" Olga said annoyed. "Yep and now | get to reeducate you." Bunny said hopping beside her. "Are you sure you're a good guy?" Olga said questioningly. "Yes and no, who can say what I'll be up to after this adventure." Bunny said rolling her eyes. "Anyways, we need to go and undo all that damage you did so you know... people can get on with their lives." "Ah... yeah..." Olga huffed in a disappointed groan. They both left the building as they headed towards Dexter's Laboratory for the final solution. To be continued... Author's note: This story has been a work in progress for quite some time now, but I'll Keep adding to it till | reach a satisfying ending. I'm glad there are people who enjoy it so I'd like to do my best to deliver the best. | will be honest though, this is probably the first and last fanfiction I'll ever write. | hope it inspires you to keep doing your best though, because we all have hidden talents and things we work at. | hope you're all doing well and stay safe. Chapter 29 Disclaimer: Disclaimer: | don't own the rights to Dexter's Laboratory or Powerpuff Girls. "Uggh, what happened?" Buttercup said rubbing her head. "You were implanted with a mind control chip by the Mecha Ninja Nurse Squad. | took it out for you." Dexter said as he had his eyes glued to his computer monitor. "Olga was the one who programmed those chips from hell. | have to wonder what Bunny is doing with her." "We're back." Bunny said entering the lab with Olga in tow. "This is your laboratory? My brothers was better." Olga said looking around unimpressed. "Yeah, but as you can plainly see Dexter is alive." Bunny said smugly. "Hmpf, yeah... he is alive." Olga said grudgingly. "So what's first boss?" "What the hell is she doing here?" Dexter said coldly pointing at Olga. "Dude, chill out." Bunny said waving her hand. "Chill out? She's the enemy! She'll reverse every step of progress we've made!" Dexter said angrily. "If she did that I'd make sure she'd regret it." Bunny said rubbing Olga on the head. "She's my student just like Mojo, if she steps out of line she will face consequences." "She's Mandark's sister." Dexter said sitting back as he looked at Olga untrustingly. "She is, but just because someone is related to an evil power crazy scientist... oh wait nevermind." Bunny said laughing as she smacked her palm to her forehead. "Trust me though, under me she's on the right path." "Fine fine." Dexter said waving his left hand and rubbing is forehead with his right. "But we still need to take out Sedusa and Princess Warbucks. "They'll be easy to take care of." Buttercup said pounding her hand with her fist. "We can just go to Mojo's lair and clobber them, then celebrate by throwing them in the local jail." "Sounds good to me, | want my house back." Mojo said having obtained his original gender earlier. "Right, let's get moving." Blossom said leading the way. They all walked upstairs and out towards Mojo's home. There at the stairway stood Sedusa looking angry and white with rage. "You brats ruined everything." Sedusa said wielding her whip, Snapping it at Dexter who dodged. "You ruined the city, we just fixed your mess your welcome." Bunny said grabbing the whip and yanking with her leg strength making Sedusa go face first in Some mud. As soon as Sedusa hit the ground Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup proceeded to beat the snot out of her. "May |?" Buttercup asked politely gesturing towards Sedusa's mangled form. "You may." Blossom said nodding as Buttercup grabbed her and flew her to jail. The rest of them walked up the stairs and entered Mojo's home. Belle, Deedee and Princess were all sitting around the table having snacks and tea. Princess looked a little more humbled then she usually would. "What's all this?" Dexter said sitting by his sister. "Hey bro." Deedee said kissing him on the cheek. "We're all doing well here, there's no need to worry. Princess has surrendered." "Hey Blossom..." Princess said getting up awkwardly and looking at her feet as she approached her. "... I'm... Sorry." Blossom gasped a bit at the apology. "So, you know you'll have to go to jail now right?" Blossom said sternly. "Yes, but I'm willing to receive my punishment. I've got some thinking to do anyways." Princess said holding out her hands nervously. "Okay, let's go." Blossom said throwing Princess over her shoulder and taking her to jail. "I'm sure glad that's over." Bubbles said hugging one of Dexter's arms. "But now what?" "Now we get to chill out for the rest of the summer before school starts up again." Bunny said going over to the refrigerator and grabbing a juice box. "Sounds good to me." Dexter said plopping on a love seat with Bubbles. Everyone settled down resting after their long adventure. The skies were peaceful, the birds singing and the sun shined with a radiant warmth that was just perfect for swimming. 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