Heroes of Townsville: Chapter 27

(No one's P.O.V.)

Just after the boys left the lab with their Dynamo hanging by their pants, Butch's head was filled with thoughts, as always. But his thoughts this time isn't his usual grieving and negative emotions since the the other day, about how he can't do anything, the Puffs wouldn't be saved, or that he won't see Kaoru ever again, no. This time, he's confident and his thoughts were only of those that could cheer him on to save the Puffs, so he could save Kaoru.

'Alright, we can do this and I'm going to get Kaoru back no matter what,' Butch thought while flying with his brothers leaving streaks of light in their respective signature colors trailing them. Butch was fired up now, he knows that they can save the Puffs, that he can save Kaoru, he needs to. So much motivational thoughts were in his head that he forgot where they should be going, which is so unlike him who can usually focus.

'Wait... where are we going again?' Butch thought.

"Yeah, yeah, I can do this, I'm strong, I'm smart, I can and I will do anything to save Miyako," Boomer said that sentence repeatedly to pump himself up. It also distracted Brick, who was turning his little Dynamo around, seemingly finding something.

"Ugh, what the hell are you doing fiddling with that thing?" Butch asked, annoyed by the noise Brick's robot makes everytime he presses a button.

"Ugh, there should be something in this stupid junk to help us find the Gates to Hell or whatever," Brick said and bopped his Dynamo's head. "This should be useful for something."

'Oh yeah, we're supposed to find the Gates to Hell,' Butch thought. He then groaned then mumbled, "Ugh, stupid old professor, forgot to tell us what to do or how to go there."

"Well, it still looks like we made it, nonetheless," Boomer said while pointing infront of them.

They stopped flying in mid air and saw the huge hole a couple of kilometers ahead.

"Woah, cool," Butch said when he noticed a few small scientific labs located very far from the hole. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go and save Butter- I mean the Puffs!"

"Hm, well someone's enthusiastic," Brick said as he rolled his eyes and followed close behind.

Everything was going smoothly, too smoothly. Butch suddenly had a feeling of suspicion run through his body and his senses heightened. He then instinctively flew to his side as fast as lightning to avoid an object hurdling towards him. He looked over his shoulder to see that his brothers managed to dodge the object as well. He looked to where the object went hurdling and saw that it was a short-ranged missile and said aloud, "That missile was pretty big to be hard to detect, isn't it?"

"Woah, woah, woah!!! Incoming!!!" Boomer panicked as more missiles and darts came flying towards them. Their eyes widened and quickly prepared to dodge every single one of them. At first it was a breeze for them until the darts flying towards them quickly grew faster, each new dart that came towards them is now faster than the last.

The boys flew around frantically. They tried to scatter so that hitting them all would be a hard time, but there seemed to be no difference at all.

Butch tried to find where the darts are coming from and who is shooting them, but he was too occupied with dodging the darts. "Oh, what the heck," he groaned and dove in to where the darts are coming from and went opposite of the direction of the darts. All while dodging and diverting all that came his way.

"What the?!" Brick said as he watched his brother flying to where the darts are coming from.

"Whoo! Yeah, bro! YOLO!" Boomer said pumping his fist in the air as he cheered his green brother on. He then dodged a fast dart. "Whoa! Close call."

Butch saw a small bunker and the gun that was shooting at them. He got his fist ready to knock the gun away but it was too hard to get near it with all the darts in his way. He suddenly felt a sharp pain by the base of his neck; he cut by one dart when he suddenly remembered something. "Pssh, what am I doing? I have a flute!"

Butch chuckled a bit then summoned his weapon: a green flute. He then played a slow tune with his flute and the darts became slower. Then, all the darts fell to the ground as he finished the last note.

"Final Note!"

Butch smirked and flew towards the bunk. Brick and Boomer did so as well and landed beside Butch. They are now facing the bunker.

"Huh, I forgot we even had weapons," Boomer said while scratching the back of his head.

"You know, you could have done that sooner," Brick said as he crossed his arms. "And now to see who's stupid enough to attack us like that."

Meanwhile, sounds of the footsteps of people running and panting tiredly echoed around a place that would give anyone an ominous feeling. It was a dim place with spiked rocks peeking out from the rocky ground; Nothing could be seen if it wasn't for the glow of the red-hot magma seeping in through the cracks of the ground.

Three girls are now running across the very bottom of the ruthless Underworld. The Powerpuff Girls Z are now trying to run away from the king of the Underworld with Buttercup supporting her two comrades, Blossom and Bubbles, by her shoulders. It hurts Buttercup's pride to retreat and hide from a foe, but when her team mates are already on the verge of death and she couldn't keep up much longer, she didn't have any other choice but to just drag her team to hide somewhere safe to heal. Even with all of Buttercup's efforts to find a safe place, it's proving to be a hard task because HIM's continuous attacks and the fact that the place they are in is the Underworld where it will be kind of ironic to find a "safe place" for them. Even knowing all of those, Buttercup still endured her own pain just to find somewhere her friends could lessen theirs.

Buttercup ran while supporting her semi concious friends to help them run. She saw that Bubbles is finally slowly closing her eyes. Buttercup tried to keep her awake but Bubbles was just too tired and her legs finally gave up. Buttercup lost grip of Bubbles and she is now lieing down on the hot, rough ground. Buttercup knelt and tried to wake Bubbles up, but she wouldn't.

"I'll be going out for a while, don't stay up too late!~" Blossom said in a drunk sleepy voice then she fell flat on the ground.

"Ugh, this is impossible! Blossom's as fat as-" Buttercup groaned as she tried to carry both of her friends on her back when they were suddenly shot by a huge fireball. Buttercup managed to avoid a direct hit by flying up, but parts of her body were still burned. She didn't have much energy left to keep flying, luckily, they were flying right above a random crater that seems to be hidden enough to be their resting spot so she flew down there and layed Blossom and Bubbles down on the ground.

"Hohoho! You girls are quite persistent! Oh well, I'll kill you all soon enough, right after I get some rest. Oh, and Buttercup~," HIM chimed. Buttercup shivered as HIM mentioned her name. "You're pretty strong. It's such a shame that you'll just be killed but, oh well!"

HIM laughed and walked away. When Buttercup could no longer hear nor sense HIM's aura close, she peeked above the crater and saw that fireball debris are still flying around.

"Woah!" she said as she slid back down the crater to avoid a piece debris flying towards her and hit Blossom on the back of her head instead, leaving a burn mark on it.

"Pfft," Buttercup tried to hold back her laughter as Blossom was getting up while rubbing the back of her head. "So, how's your sleep."

"Ow, terrible. I was just dreaming of the same dream I had where... uhhhhhhhh..." Blossom suddenly froze while pointing at something. Buttercup turned to look at what she was pointing at, but there wasn't really anything she was pointing at.

"Uh, mind telling me what you're looking at?" Buttercup asked.

"What? Are you kidding me?! Can't you see that gigantic pink teddy bear that looks like MY Teddy standing right on the edge of this crater?!" Blossom said while waving her arms around.

Buttercup looked around and saw nothing of this 'Teddy' Blossom was talking about. "Alright, it's official. You're crazy and you're hallucinating like crazy. Why don't you lay down for a while to clear your mind?"

"Oh my gosh! They're here!" Bubbles suddenly shot up from her slumber.

Buttercup widened her eyes and turned excitedly to see a certain pale boy, only to see three girls that looks just like them, well, almost just like them.

"Hm, to be honest, I was expecting someone else," Buttercup said while staring blankly at the three girls while rubbing her chin.

"Yeah, me too," Bubbles said while sweatdropping.

"Shut it. Oh, I'm Brute by the way," the one that looked like Buttercup giggled. It made Buttercup cringe.

"I'm Brat," the one that looked like Bubbles said and continued to bite her nails. It's not a nervous habit, it's just her way to sharpen her nails to use as claws.

"And I'm Berserk, and we're the Powerpunk Girls Z," the one the looked like blossom said. Blossom stared at Berserk and knew that she saw her from somewhere before.

"Man, I'm having the craziest deja vu right now."

To Be Continued...