The Powerpuff girls and MegaMan. MegaMan's new beggining

CHAPTER IV: BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

Buttercup finally walked into the parking lot of a shopping mall, her head down. They had been wandering here and there, to and fro, not even getting one bit closer to home. And the sky looked greyer then ever.

'Well, its official,' Buttercup said loudly, throwing her hands to the sky, 'I have no idea where we are.' Grouching, she folded her arms again, stopping not one inch further.

'Well I can't say it's being the best day,' mumbled Blossom in a raspy and energy-lacking voice, coming up beside Buttercup.

'But,' added Bubbles sorrowfully, as she stopped on Blossom's other side, 'it probably couldn't get much worse.' Blossom looked back down at the ground. They were all standing there quietly –

A flash of lightning occurred suddenly, signalling a thunderstorm. Just as the thunder resonated, rain came pouring down hard. All three girls' hair drooped under their heads, as well as Blossom's bow. Buttercup moaned loudly in frustration, while Bubbles sobbed without tears. Blossom glanced between the two quickly, searching for a solution.

'Hey, it's okay,' she said, trying to counsel them. She managed to succeed in stopping their yells, at any rate. Blossom gestured towards the deserted mall in front of them. 'Um... maybe there's a box we can get in around back. Come on!' She set off for the mall's corner, Buttercup and Bubbles trailing behind as the rain continued to come down. Lightning struck somewhere far away, the thunder following soon after as the girls paced around the side of Malph's, looking left and right. Blossom finally reached the back of the mall, around the side of an abandoned lorry. She pointed ahead of her, exclaiming.

'See? There's a whole bunch of boxes!' Blossom didn't wait for a response, taking off for the pile of boxes against the property's back railing. Buttercup and Bubbles trailed after her, coming around the lorry curiously. Blossom was getting closer to the boxes –

The green-skinned Hispanic midget burst out of the boxes with no warning, yelling. Blossom tripped backwards from Li'l Arturo at this, flinching. Suddenly, the dumpster behind Buttercup and Bubbles opened, the also green-skinned snake-like teenager hissing out. Bubbles and Buttercup whipped their heads around in shock. And on Blossom's other side, the rest of the boxes exploded upwards, exposing the round green-skinned colossus. Blossom drew back from Big Billy, yelling in fear with her sisters.

Suddenly light started to open on them. The back of the lorry was suddenly opened by a tall figure. He leapt down onto the ground in front of the girls, standing up. He was also green-skinned, with sunglasses. The rain dripped his black hair either side of his face. Snake and Big Billy joined either side of him, just as lightning struck again, making the girls cower even more.

'Aw, what's the matter?' questioned Ace, leering down on them with mock care. None of the girls had the courage to even make a sound to these words. 'Did somebody get washed?' He laughed malicious chuckle after malicious chuckle almost evilly. Big Billy chuckled too, and Snake hissed without even moving. The girls, almost paralysed by this, looked to their side. Arturo laughed like the Mexican he was too, the rain dripping off his hair that was swept over one eye. The girls then looked off to the one side that wasn't blocked, although rain was still coming down –

When the grotesque hunchback landed down, blowing a raspberry continuously as he shook his ugly head. The girls yelled in even greater fear as Grubber placed a repulsive step forward, long toenails sticking out. He lumbered his way towards them. The girls were too petrified to move at all. He got within a foot, ready to attack –

When a PUNCH sound resonated as Grubber stopped dead, before he keeled over onto the ground, out cold. Behind him was Mega-Man, cross-eyed with a grunt in his face. In his view, he dose not look happy.

The Gangreen Gang turn to see who punch Grubber, with a shock look on their face. They recognized him as the hero of Townsville. They even had a run in with him sometime ago, and thought he was gone. But somehow he's back

Your...your...your' stuttered Ace to scared to even finish his sentence.

Back?' Mega-Man spoken in Ace's words' That's right Gangreen Gang' He scrunched his cross-eyes' Mega-Man is back!' Mega-Man replied ready to serve up some old fashion justice.


 Mega-Man flew, zipping towards Snake. He started to give Snake double hook to his face and gave him a uppercut, sending him flying to the ground, out cold. Next Mega-Man flew straight to Big Billy's stomach, then zipped up to Billy's head with a punch to the chin and last, he grabbing his shirt and slammed Billy to the ground, sending him to unconscious too. Mega-Man zoomed straight Arturo, punching him to the walls. Arturo now slid down to the garbage. Finally, Mega-Man jet off the lorry Ace, punch after punch until Ace is knocked out.


Now he was heading towards the girls. They shrunk back, but it thankfully landed on the ground near them. They looked up thankfully to him. He stood up 2feet taller then the girls.

The girls stood there stunned, surrounded by the unconscious Gangreen Gang members. After a few tense moments of after-anticipation, they opened their mouths. 'Wow, thanks.

It made Mega-Man smile for being a hero to save his soon to be sisters.

'Anyway, we just wanted to thank you for saving us from those green gangsters back there,' said Blossom in a would-be happy tone, trying to smile. Whoever the figure in the box was, they saw no reason to be afraid of him.

'Yeah,' added in Buttercup, 'that was amazing the way you flew around those guys.' She gestured around, mimicking its actions in taking out the Gangreen Gang. 'you were all like, zip, smack, wham, Pow!'

'Yeah, you rock!' supplied Bubbles, gesturing her arms as Buttercup folded her own upper limbs.

'Glad to hear that from you girls, and to be of service.' replied Mega-Man.

'Since your awake, you think you maybe play with use.' Bubbles asked jumping with joy to finally see him in person.

Mega-Man frowned, wishing that it was that easy' I of loved that' closing his eyes for a moment then opened them again' But the professor needs to see that I am active. But once he dose see me this way,' bring back the hope to the girls. 'I'm sure we can have lots of fun together. In the mean time'. Pulling out a peice of paper to the girls.'This will help you find your way home, if you're not allowed to use your powers. Bye'. With that said he flew back home, leaving the girls to walk back home in the same position again.

Blossom saw something up top to see who ever it is. 'Hey look! Blossom yelled to the girls sowing the shadowy figure.

A figure on top of a nearby, low-raised roof lowered the lid back down. Rain lashed down as the girls took him in. Apart from the trench coat, he had a paper bag over his head and a torn scarf billowing around his neck. Goblin-like ears protruded from either side of his shadowed face. And then, lightning struck, briefly illuminating his curved eyes and what parts of his face weren't hidden by the bag of scarf. It was a very deep, multilayered face, in more ways than one, as would soon be revealed.



The figure leapt off of the low roof, away from the girls. 'Hey, wait!' cried Blossom as he ran away from them, around a nearby corner. 'Come back!' His shadow had only just vanished when the girls ran after him, their feet splashing in the rain all around them. The mysterious figure swept down the alley, mild panic on his partly concealed face, until he vanished from view into the shadows of a sideways box, surrounded by many others.

The girls slowly trudged their way down the wet path leading to the figure's box, looking around for him. Their hair dripped by their side, the rain pit-patting everywhere. Blossom looked up, down, left and right, while Buttercup and Bubbles looked everywhere too. Blossom finally slowed down and looked into the shadows of the box, swinging her arms as she approached closer, squinting into the darkness of the box.

'Hey guys, over here!' she called to Buttercup and Bubbles. All three of them jogged a little closer to the box. 'Hi, what's your name? I'm Blossom.' She patted her chest lightly.

'Buttercup,' added Buttercup, nodding her head in conformation, folding her arms in her own distinctive way.

'And I'm...' said Bubbles with mild tension, throwing her arms wide. 'Bubbles!'

'Go away, please,' moaned the figure from the depths of the large box. He was crouched back so far that nothing of him could be seen. The girls looked confused, holding their heads very still. 'Do not look at me.'
' said the figure from the box's back. The rain continued to fall, the girls leaning in to his every word. 'I dare not listen.' As he spoke his deep, monsterous-sounding voice , a pair of wide, pink eyes suddenly opened, fully visible to the girls. His black pupils showed heavy trauma from within, whatever it was. 'For I have been lashed by harsh tongues for too long!' His pupils widened, then closed, finally opening again, now looking down at where his feet might be. 'Alas, my little ones, I do not rock.' His pupils retreated to the centre of his eyes, as they curved, showing anger, at himself no less. 'For I, Jojo, am...' He hesitated briefly, mentally searching for the right word.

'A monster.' Lightning flashed and thunder boomed, illuminating his face. With his scarf lower now, the girls were able to briefly see a mouth surrounded by black body hair, and the deepest of angry sorrows before darkness shielded him from the girls' field of vision once again.

'You're not a monster,' said Blossom, dismissing the notion without hesitation. 'Monsters are evil.' Whatever the reason, they felt angrier at almost anybody else right then, even Professor, as he had failed to collect them. While this one, who named himself Jojo... he was different to them.

'Yeah,' agreed Buttercup, 'You don't look anything like a monster or anything.' She folded her arms yet again, having looked to the sky as she had spoken.

You're no monster, mister,' said Bubbles calmly, her own hands behind her back. 'You're just really dirty.'

'Please,' moaned Jojo's voice from the box. Rain dripped off of the flap that stuck out, falling down in front of the girls as they listened patiently. His voice, previously full of moderate angst, was now in full angst-mode, although it was personal, true angst then drew the girls in completely. 'You're just trying to make me feel better. But my pain is not for you to understand.'

The girls stared back, tiny puddles of water congregating at their feet. 'Besides, how could you?' continued Jojo without hesitation, no visible part of his body required to convey the necessary emotion; his voice was doing the job just fine. 'For you are pure, and innocent, and most certainly loved.' The girls exchanged side glances, silently thinking about what Jojo had just said. They looked back as he continued. 'How could you what it is to be cast out into a world that only offers misery?' A short silence resonated, the girls blinking a few times in somewhat slow succession, though not nearly as slow as the current crawling speed of Jojo's voice. Deep down, they knew exactly what it was like to be tormented by others, left all alone in the cold, dark world. They could relate completely. 'How could you know what it's like for people to fear and despise you for the very things that make you special?' The girls looked down, staring into their distorted reflections on the watery ground at their feet. Minus the continuous drops of rain, they could see exactly how they felt in their own faces.

'Because you don't fit in,' said Jojo, sounding a little pissed off now. The rain was still falling around his box. 'Because you are... a FREAK!' Jojo stepped out of his box, whipping the paper bag off of his head. Lightning flashed again, just as a bright, gross, repulsive pink brain stretching out of his skull came into view. He was a mutated chimpanzee, with the ability to speak, his skin green and his fur pitch black. He stood very still, watching the girls for reaction.

They stared back at him sadly. They hadn't ran or even flinched when he had revealed himself. They had just stood there, with sad looks on their faces, not intimidated.

'Because,' said Blossom. The three girls rose into the air, small whoosh sounds accompanying their take off. Jojo recoiled in surprise, watching with slight shock as they rose further away from his head. Droplets of water fell past the girls as they rose higher and farther. 'We're freaks too.'

'What amazing powers!' Jojo jerked his thumb upwards in approval, finding their abilities quite impressive. His pink brain wobbled as rain hit it, drop after drop.

'No, they're terrible!' cried back Blossom, anger spread on her face.

'I bet everyone hates them,' said Jojo quietly, lowering his hand back down.

'Yeah!' said Buttercup sourly, crossing her eyes in confirmation.

'And they hate you too,' said Jojo in realization, pointing up at the girls.

'Yes,' sniffled Bubbles with great effort, rather upset. Jojo turned back away from the girls, tears welling up in his eyes. It was the saddest look seen on his face before... or since, for a very long time.

'I am in the same boat,' he said in a slow moan. Just as the tears fell from his eyes, rain hitting him all over at the same time, he pointed up to his protruding brain, almost touching it with his sharp simian fingers. 'This brain is full of brilliant ideas.' He sniffled slightly, and not just due to the coldness of the night either. 'But will anybody listen? No.' He slumped forwards a bit, his voice's hope level dropping even lower. The girls were still nearby, paying close attention. They drifted a little closer, although he was unaware of this, his back still to them. 'Nothing in this grey matters...' He started to trudge his way back towards his box, slopping his feet through the congregated water on the paved ground. 'So what's the point?' He trotted over the box flap and back into the crowded depths, free from the rain, but not from his many problems. He was only in there two seconds, however, before the girls floated back down in front of it, stopping on the bottom flap. Their hair moved with them as they touched ground level again. They had returned back down.

'Oh Jojo,' said Bubbles sweetly, 'don't be sad.' She and Buttercup leaned around his right side, while Blossom poked around his left. He faced away from them, his outline visible. 'Our dad says that sometimes people get angry when they don't understand something special or unique.' Jojo opened his eyes, having heard Bubbles.

'And if you just give people time,' added in Blossom, going along the same lines as Bubbles, 'they'll start to understand your specialness.'

'Yeah,' agreed Buttercup, raising an arm for effect. 'You just gotta believe in yourself.' At these words, just as the rain outside finally ceased falling, Jojo's eyes blinked. But when they opened again, they were accompanied by a grin. Coupled with his eyes, it looked almost... sinister.

Without warning, he leaned back out of his box, startling the girls. 'You mean,' he began, speaking much faster now than before, 'if I take my time to construct my most ingenious plan, the Help-The-Town-And-Make-It-A-Better-Place machine, then people will come to understand my specialness?'

He waited there, hesitating, his fingers clenched against each other. The girls remained rather nonplussed, Blossom and Bubbles subtly glancing at Buttercup. 'Uhhhh...' hesitated Buttercup slowly, befuddled.

'Okay!' exclaimed Jojo, stretching his arms and eyes wide. 'I'll do it!' He narrowed his eyes to slits once again, looking determined. 'But I'll need your help.'

'WHAT?' Exclaimed all three girls. They were with Jojo on the rocky rim of a short volcano in the dead centre of Townsville Central Park.

'Jump in,' said Jojo, gesturing towards the crater which was full of lava only a foot or two short of the brim. He had a tough-looking cylindrical device under his arm, and his brain was once again concealed by the paper bag. 'Take this device I've built into the volcano. We need to harness the energy of the Earth's core for power.' The girls looked from the lava to Jojo's punched fist.

'What are you talking about?' asked Blossom.

'The plan,' said Jojo. The buildings way below were small specks.

'What plan?' questioned Buttercup.

'Our plan,' said Jojo again, confident as ever.

'To do what?' piped up Bubbles

'To make the town better, of course,' said Jojo with high swagger.

'What?' asked the girls again, just as a bubble on the lava popped with a belch.

'You know,' said Jojo, laying out a blueprint in front of the girls. It showed a metal dome with multiple thin leg supports, codenamed PPG-801. The girls looked at it in confusion. 'Using my idea and your powers, we will build the Help-The-Town-And-Make-It-A-Better-Place-Machine.' The girls looked back up at him as he gestured to the blueprint. 'That way everyone will see that our special abilities our good, then everyone will love us. Remember? It was your idea!' He pointed to them in statement. Buttercup, at the front blinked in confusion. The lava continued to churn.

'Uh,' stammered Blossom, trying to remember what they had said, 'oh, yeah. But... use our powers?' she asked in earnest, throwing out her arms.

'Yes!' said Jojo with encouragement.

'No way,' said Buttercup, dismissing the notion without any hesitation.

'Come on,' croaked Jojo, very eager. His torn scarf blew behind him.

'Nuh uh,' said Bubbles sadly, all of them looking set against Jojo's request. She looked down, speaking in a slow, but clear voice. They didn't want to risk destroying the city again. 'We're never using our powers again.'

'Oh girls, said Jojo with slow sympathy. Leaving his cylindrical device on the rocky terrain behind him, he crawled forward towards them over his plan, tilting his head as he spoke. His trench coat trailed on the ground. 'Don't be sad.' He dropped the sympathetic voice, switching back to encouraging Jojo. 'Your powers are great!' They looked up from the lava towards him. He grinned down with crossed eyes at them. Jojo only wanted what was best for the town, he said. 'You just gotta believe in yourself.'

A U-shaped grin steadily crawled its way up Jojo's face, although no teeth were shown while he did this. He displayed this to the girls with the upmost confidence. The girls, still with hesitation, looked at Jojo, then back down at the lava filling the volcano crater. Their distorted reflections looked back on them, thereafter broken by another lava bubble. Slowly, they looked up towards the centre of the crater. The lava churned slowly, the various shades of said lava moving around each other like chunky jelly.

Without warning, three blurs of pink, blue and green respectively, shot into the middle of the lava crater, splashing it about. Jojo grinned down as the ripples vanished away. Heavy determination was present even in his black pupils.

The girls moved down through the lava, spiraling around red-hot rocks as they did so. Something about Jojo's words had propelled them to risk the usage of their powers to make this machine for the town. They had crossed eyes as they shot down through the stuff, approaching a point past all the rocks that resembled a hotter sphere. It wasn't the mantle, although to the girls it felt like it as they got into it.

Briefly blinded as they went inside, they held their breaths as they let go of the device. It steadied itself, its top lid gradually unwinding as it rotated into position. The device was completely resilient to the lava's red-hot temperature, as were the girls.

Attached to a long wire, the lid shot back up out of the large sphere, the girls moving with it. Their breath started to reach breaking point as they moved through the rocks with the lid, which was moving itself. They could see the approaching surface of the lava –

The girls burst out of the crater, splashing lava everywhere as they did so, the device's lid stopping level with the brim of the crater. 'Yes, yes, yes!' said Jojo in triumph, jumping up and down with excited fists, some of the lava almost hitting him as he did so.

'We did good?' asked Blossom, the lava dripping off of their skin, neither them nor their clothes affected even remotely.

'You did very good,' said Jojo with a drawl, his fists clenched together as the girls fell down to hover in front of him. His pupils drew to the side of his head, something else not said. 'Very good indeed...'

'Now what do we do?' said Buttercup enthusiastically, like a starved shark.

Jojo returned to the blueprint, pointing at the sides of the dome-like structure. The girls watched over his shoulders. 'First we construct the superstructure,' he said, moving his hand across the sketched dome.

The girls' signature light trails twisted and twirled around giant chucks of ice sticking out of a vast tundra. Against a dark night sky, they landed down in front of a flat stretch of icy ground. They shut their eyes tightly, sending out eyebeams at the ice, bringing up clouds of icy fog that clouded their vision.
Once the fog had faded, they approached the edge of the hole they had made, their hair blowing in the tough wind. Buttercup slid down beneath the large asteroid that was contained in the hole they had just created. Straining only a small bit with the weight, she started to lift it into the sky, grinning. Blossom and Bubbles almost laughed too.

Back at the volcano, Jojo, speaking excitedly, gestured the three girls into lifting the asteroid closer to the cylindrical device's lid, which had now sprouted three tight metal rods that anchored themselves to the crater's walls. Buttercup and Blossom shot four eyebeams together, melting the asteroid gradually as Bubbles held it steady. The molten rock flowed down into moulding cases that Jojo had ready, his mouth giving instructions that the girls were able to follow perfectly. They were proceeding rapidly, faster than one would have thought, even with the girls' powers.
Buttercup flexed one of the many iron bars into place, while Bubbles sealed it down with her eyebeams. Over on the structure's other side, Blossom did both, attaching its end to another and sealing it in. Even from afar, one could see the structure quickly taking shape, the bars showing the shape of a dome already, even though the top was missing.

The girls' streaks shot through the deepest depths of the ocean, weaving around underwater rock formations, a crashed sunken ship and other sunken treasures, until they finally reached a giant submarine on the ocean floor. They slowed up and stopped as they reached its tail end. Light was shining from a large crack on its middle starboard side.
The girls, as one, lifted the submarine up by its tail fin. As the underwater vehicle rose from the rocky floor, the lights inside flickered and vanished, just as a large school of angler fish, with their lit-up angled glowing bulbs, swam away in a hurry.

Jojo told the girls to lower the submarine through the structure's hole. His claws were clenched together, the ocean-adapted wreak drawing closer to him. While Buttercup and Bubbles held the opposite ends steady above Jojo, Bubbles grabbed a lone construction bar. Swinging it fast, she struck the submarine middle, cracking it fully in two like a piñata, sending all manner of technological wires and components to the structure floor.
As Blossom and Buttercup swept up all the components rapidly, Jojo grabbed two of them linking them together. He connected the two wires together in the structure's middle station, lighting up all the wired lights around the place in a luminous green color. The girls gasped in even bigger excitement soundlessly. From afar at the same place, the structure glowed green even more. It was nearing completion without question.

The girls shot out through a vast, cold desert at night, stopping over a bay of large sand. They whirled themselves around the sand dune rapidly, gathering it up in their tornado, the moon glowing close to their point on the Earth's surface.

Jojo gestured towards the pile of sand the girls had accumulated, as they sizzled it up to a hot temperature with six eyebeams all together. Once hot enough, they used thin glass tubes to blow the melted sand into glass spheres, floating near the side of the completed dome structure.

'Look,' said Jojo with awestruck admiration as he used a wrench to tighten a bolt on a gigantic glass sphere atop the structure's middle station, 'can't you see out plan is working?' Blossom fitted one of the glass spheres onto the end of a glass rod sticking out of the large glass sphere, while Buttercup used her eyebeams to meld another glass rod into place, a wire leading inside the large one. 'Our work is proceeding as planned!' Bubbles carried two glass spheres around to the other side, ready to fit them in. 'At last, our lives will be better! As last, we will be accepted!' Jojo directed the girls into placing down multiple glass cylinders with dome tops onto holding cups around the perimeter of the structure. He then looked at his blueprint with admiration, lowering it down to see the finished work of their plan.

'At last,' said Jojo triumphantly, 'our greatest work is comple –' Jojo abruptly stopped mid-sentence. The structure matched his blueprint down to the note, with windows around the perimeter and an even bigger glass sphere encasing the small ones extending from the inner one. Wires from it led to the entire glass cylinder around the edge in a circle. The control station below had all the necessary buttons and levers too.

'Oops,' stuttered Jojo slowly.

'What's wrong?' said Blossom, the three girls floating above him curiously.

'Well,' said Jojo in a sweet voice, looking up at them with a somewhat sly grin, 'there is one last teeny tiny, itsy bitty thing we still need.' The girls stared back at him, confusion ridden on their faces as to what else was required for the plan.

In the lab of the Utonium Chateau, a container of Chemical X rested on the white desk surface. It wasn't alone for long, though, as the three girls floated up in front of it quickly. Their bright trails zoomed out the front door, through the bright morning day. They reached Jojo's observatory within second, which stood alone and complete now atop the volcano.

Inside, they floated up in front of Jojo, Blossom holding the container of Chemical X. Jojo only grinned even more, quietly pointing to the top of the structure. Without hesitation, the girls floated up there, past the giant glass spheres and the wire-encased walls. Finally reaching the top, Blossom slowly placed the chemical-containing flask upside down in a small hole for the vat, the flask's tube leading directly into the machine, although the chemical stayed where it was.

'Yes, yes, yes!' cheered Jojo in triumph, leaping up and down on the spot, his rags shaking as he did so.

'We did good?' asked Blossom again, the three of them whipping around from the top of the machine.

'You did very good,' said Jojo with a snigger, in exactly the same manner as before, the girls floating down in front of him. The blue sky shone across the city's buildings through the oval windows around the structure's exterior. His eyes slanted sideways again, 'Very good indeed...'

'Now what do we do?' asked Buttercup again, this time even more enthusiastic, if that was possible.

'Well,' said Jojo slowly, folding his arms behind his back, and briefly closing his eyes, 'because you've done so good, I've got... A special surprise!' The girls gasped without any noise yet again as he pointed at them.

A surprise atop helping the town and making it a better place... Despite starting off bad, their lives couldn't get any better or worse now!