Chaos filled the entire Townsville. Everyone was screaming and running for their lives as fire spread wildly throughout the city. Bodies of the unlucky ones were scattered all over the place, badly mutilated and maimed into horrific proportions. Their body parts were everywhere—heads at the corner, torsos in drains, arms dangling on lamp posts and such. More bodies of police, firemen and medical people and the upturned bloody police cars and fire trucks filled the streets. The massacre was even worse than any other attack from any other huge beats or super villain had ever inflicted. Even the Mayor and Ms. Bellum were helpless to send anymore back-up. They were rushing over towards their getaway car to escape from Townsville, but somehow there were mysterious barriers all over the place. Weird-looking trees made of steel and concrete shot out of the ground, barring any means of escape. No one could go in or out of Townsville. They were all trapped in the middle of a war zone with no one else to turn to.
Towering over them and standing at the highest skyscraper was Him, holding his scythe in relish and laughing menacingly over the people that were in panic below. Using his scythe and his own powers, he shot more and more fireballs everywhere, lighting them into inferno in an instant. He wasn't the Him everyone knew to be speaking in a half-woman's voice and acting with style. He has now turned into a super villain that was no different than someone who was power-hungry enough to sell his soul to the Devil just to get what he wants.
"Ha ha ha ha ha! Feel the power of my fury! Feel the wrath of my tyranny! Bow down to me, your true ruler!"
"NOT SO FAST, HIM!"
Him spun round to see the Powerpuff Girls standing before him, with faces a mark of hatred and vengeance. There were some of Townsville people who thought they saw them there hovering in front of Him but they were too high to be seen clearly. Him smirked at their presence.
"Well, hello, girls. Fancy seeing you here."
"You're going down, Him! You're seriously going down!" Buttercup growled as she punched her fists.
"You killed Mojo Jojo," Bubbles chided in. "And you will not go unpunished!"
"And you're now trying to overrun Townsville into one of your own sick-minded fantasy land!" Blossom continued. "And we're gonna make sure you get what you deserve!"
"I'm afraid I have to disappoint you, girls," Him replied as he raised his scythe. "I don't know how you can make yourselves physical after just being out of the spirit world, but Townsville is mine, and soon will the rest of the world, and I'm not going to let some kindergarten schoolchildren foil my plans! Spirit droids, attack!"
Suddenly, dozens upon dozens of spirit-like creatures flowed out in command out of nowhere and began charging towards the girls. Somehow, Him had made use of his Messenger of Death status and used the souls he had claimed to do his bidding. The Powerpuff Girls were in for a big fight. Butt-kicking and face-punching ensured. But unfortunately, their opponents were spirits of the dead, and the dead can't just die again. No matter how much they fought, the spirits immediately got back on their feet and continued the fight. The girls were gettin weary of this endless fight.
"We've gotta think of something to stop these spirit droids!" Bubbles squeaked as she was being kicked at the butt.
"But how?" Buttercup said as she aimed a sock at one of the droids' gut. "They're already dead! We can't just kill them or anything! That would do no good!"
"Maybe it's something to do with that scythe Him's holding," Blossom said while she head-butt a spirit's groin. She saw Him aiming his scythe and continued to burn the entire city. Suddenly she had an idea. She turned to her sisters and said, "Girls, aim our ray eyes at the scythe! We have to destroy the source of Him's undead powers!"
"How can you be sure that's the source?" Buttercup argued.
"It's the only chance we've got. What else we have to lose?"
"Townsville?" Bubbles suggested meekly.
"Yeah, well, we'll have to risk that. Come on, girls! We've got only one shot at this! Let's do this for Mojo Jojo."
The rest of the girls finally nodded and stared at the scythe. Focussing their powers, they began to shoot out rays from their eyes towards the scythe. Blossom's red rays, Bubbles's blue rays and Buttercup's green rays combined together and soon hit the scythe off Him's crab-like hand. Him was caught off guard and was unable to get down retrieving the scythe in time. Another shot from their rays sent the scythe into smithereens. As soon as the scythe was gone, so were the spirit droids. They all disappeared like a puff of smoke. The girls cheered and gave each other a High-5. Him glared venomously at the girls over the loss of his scythe.
"You! How dare you! You've foiled my plans long enough! Now taste my fury!"
"With pleasure!" Blossom replied. "Girls, attack!"
Again, another hectic fight began between the Powerpuff Girls and Him. They kicked and punched and head-butt and shot rays and used every superpower they had on Him. Him was taken down a couple of times or so, but he got back up on his feet almost as fast. Somehow, in a burst of energy, Him used his aura and sent the girls flying off and hitting against the Mayor's building. Needless to say, loads of bricks and debris and walls and other things in the building were crushed as the girls were sent skidding on the ground and only stopped in the middle of the Mayor's already ruined office. As they tried to get up, they saw Him coming closer towards them, a deathly aura hanging around him and his eyes burning like fire with rage, hate, vengeance and any other evil thoughts he had towards the girls.
"I have had enough of you bratty little girls! Ever since I came to this town, you did nothing but foil every plan I have against you! You've ruined every dream and every future I have in store for this city and you've ruined my plans for dominating the world! I'm the strongest and most lethal of all super villains! I am the boss and leader of all super villains that existed in Townsville and I rule over them all! I should be ruling over all you pathetic humans and the entire Earth! But no! You had to butt in and ruin everything! You made everyone love you so much and cloud their minds with precious little sweetness and cuteness and all that crud! I won't take it anymore! I don't need the scythe anymore! I am the strongest! The most powerful of all! I don't deserve this insubordination!"
He closed in towards the girls and with his feet, he stepped on their guts and grinned, both his crab-like hands glowed an eerie red that looked like it can slice the Statue of Liberty in half. He thought he heard a sound like electricity short curcuit from the girls, but he ignored it as he hissed, "Since you enjoy being tortured so much, I might as well send you to hell where your precious little Mojo Jojo belongs! Say goodbye, Powerpuff Girls! Your heroine days are over!"
Just when Him was about to stab the glowing crab hands into the girls' skull, something shocking happened. A sudden huge glow began to appear in the middle of the girls' chest. One by one, the glow brightened and illuminated the whole building. It shone brighter and brighter until it covered almost half of Townsville. Him couldn't believe his eyes. What was going on? What happened? What is this strength that suddenly overpowered his? Before he could react, the burst of the glow threw him off the ground and sent him flying towards the heart of Townsville. He fell onto the ground with a loud thump and created a long, low dent under him. As he staggered to regain composure, he was even shocked to see that the girls have huge dove-like wings on their backs. It was twice the size of a normal wing you see in pictures of angels and more majestic than any wing a bird could portray. All the time, their chest continued to glow—Blossom a bright pinkish-red, Bubbles a sky-blue and Buttercup the deepest shade of green. Despite the fact that this sudden change in them was new, the girls still remained calm and oblivious to it, as if it just came naturally to them.
"Him, you have done enough damage towards Townsville," Blossom said as she materialized a shining rope. She took it and lassoed Him's ankles, keeping him in place. "This has got to stop, Him, right now."
"I'll never stop! Until this world is mine, I'll never stop!" Him exclaimed as he tried to pry the ropes off his ankles. Blossom pulled it even tighter and made him falled on his head.
"Your wrongdoings will not go unpunished," Bubbles said as she materialized a shining bow. As she pulled at the string, two arrows formed out of nowhere into the bow and fit perfectly in aim. She let go and the arrows immediately hit their targets—on both Him's wrists. They embedded through the wrists and locked themselves tightly on the solid ground. Now Him was completely immobile.
"You can never defeat the ultimate Him! I'm the strongest! I'm the most evil! I'm the most lethal! No one can defeat Him! NO ONE!" Him had lost his mind. Seeing that he was about to see the last of himself, denial was all that he had left. He was still as vain as ever and still hang on to the belief that he was the ultimate villain. Buttercup narrowed her eyes in contempt and materialized a huge crescent-shaped sword.
"Go to hell," Buttercup muttered as she raised the sword high above her head. She let out a yell as she flew in blinding speed towards Him, the blade aiming at his throat.
Before Buttercup decapitated the villain of all villains, Him let out one last laugh...
Snow began to fall signalling the coming of winter. One of them fell on the face of Princess and she blinked her eyes awake. She got up painfully and looked around. She tried to remember what had happened. She remembered painting her nails in her little room and was suddenly flung out of the window by some unseen force and the last thing she remembered was seeing Him standing over her before one of the window shards pierced through her heart...
She quickly checked herself. There was no window shard, no blood, no wound, nothing. What was going on? Where was she? She looked around and saw that she was lying on the grass of her backyard. She then noticed people were moving slowly towards the heart of Townsville. She followed suite and soon found herself joined by the rest of the villains.
"Hey, what's going on here? Why is everyone going towards Townsville?" Princess demanded.
"Uuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh...I dunno," one of the Amoeba Boys replied slowly. "I woke up thinking that I was a goner and saw the crowd going to Townsville. I'm just following, see?"
"Yeah, I reckoned I wuz a goner too," Fuzzy Lumpkin agreed. "That doggone Him crashed thru' my property and gave me a nasty headache. I reckoned he tried to kill me!"
"I bet he's doing that to all the villains!" Brick said, scowling. "He trashed each and every one of us for no particular reason and actually killed Butch and Boomer before my eyes before he did me in!"
"Let's go downtown and show Him what for!" the leader of the Gangreen Gang growled and moved up to the front of the line. The rest followed suite, cheering behind him.
Meanwhile, Prof. Utonium drove his car as fast as he could towards the heart of Townsville. He could hardly believe his eyes at what he had witnesses back in the lab before. Mojo Jojo didn't show up even when his time limit was over. The portal shut off by itself and the next minute, the portal exploded, just like the way his concoction of the perfect little girls exploded. He had a hard bang on his head, but not too hard to knock him unconscious. As he nursed his throbbing head, he saw three glows at the place where he created the android Powerpuff Girls. The colours of the glow were all too familiar—red, blue and green. He rushed towards the scene and saw that destroyed prototypes began to heal themselves. Broken wires, separated joints, severed cables and torn limbs soon join together to form what they originally were. The prototypes slowly stood up as the glow continued to shimmer on the prototypes' chests. They all looked as if they have never been broken and have never been destroyed by Mojo Jojo's ray gun. They blinked a couple of times before revealing those huge eyes he had loved so much. They weren't lifeless and dead as he created them to be. They were full of life and energy, and an instinct to do justice. Slowly, they smiled at him.
"Blossom...? Bubbles...? Buttercup...?" Prof. Utonium moved towards them tentatively. He touched their cheeks, hoping to feel their warmth as he used to when they were alive, but cold steel greeted him back.
"Hey, Prof.," Blossom said in her familiar intellectual tone. "Long time no see."
"We missed you so much," Bubbles was just as cute and bubbly as ever.
"But how...? Why...? What happened...? Where's Mojo Jojo?"
"That son of a gun Him killed Mojo Jojo!" Buttercup yelled in her usual tomboyish tone. "I'm gonna make him pay for what he did to Mojo Jojo!"
"He died trying to save us..." Bubbles whined and buried her face in her hands. Blossom patted her shoulder and looked determinedly at Prof. Utonium.
"We have to go, Prof. Him has gone on a rampage and we have to stop them. Let's go, girls."
"Wait! Don't go!" Prof. Utonium stopped them. "You don't have to do this! I can't bear to lose you anymore! Let's just move to a better city. A city where everyone will accept you as who you are. Please, girls, I can't stand you going out of my sight. You've died once, and I'm not gonna let you die again!"
The girls levitated until they were face to face with the professor. They each gave him a kiss on the cheek and smiled as sweetly as they used. Finally they said "We love you, Prof. Always" before flying out of the house and towards Townsville.
Now Prof. Utonium was in Townsville, along with the rest of the citizens. They were all staring up at the sky with jaws wide open, gaping in wonder. All the people that have died have been revived, including the villains, and they were all looking up. Prof. Utonium looked up as well, and gasped to see that it was the Powerpuff Girls, hovering in the sky above everyone, smiling the familiar sweet smile everyone had come to love since the day they were accepted into Townsville life. They looked down at the body of Him on the ground, with his ankles bound, his hands pinned to the ground and his head away from the body. Everyone was speechless. Did the girls actually do it? Did they actually defeat the ultimate evil of Townsville? Did they actually slay Him who was known to be the most feared and strongest of all villains?
"Powerpuff Girls!" the Mayor exclaimed. "You have wings! How beautiful! I wish I could have them!"
The girls only giggled. Prof. Utonium's eyes welled up. He had a feeling they weren't going to stay long. He thought he saw Mojo Jojo in his original ape form cradled gently in Bubbles's arms. Words need not to be said as the citizens of Townsville continued to stare at the Powerpuff Girls under the falling snow. The girls shifted their heads towards the fallen buildings and they immediately turned back to normal, as if someone was pressing the reverse button of a remote control. Every broken, burnt and fallen building was returned to its mint condition. More dead bodies were revived (except Him) and some of the mutilated ones were even reattached back together and brought back to life. Everywhere the girls shift their gaze, anything undone was made done.
The entire Townsville were speechless. Like Prof. Utonium, tears began to well up and fall freely from their eyes. They couldn't believe that even in death, the Powerpuff Girls have returned to protect them. Those cute, little innocent girls who, at first wreck havoc in the city with their new found powers, gained the trust of the city with their first rescue of the day from the crazed Mojo Jojo. The girls who would risk life and limb to save Townsville, which used to be a troubled city filled with crime, from any incoming threat, may it be big or small. The girls who had captured the hearts of everyone in the nation. And now they're there, even though they're dead, saving them yet again from the biggest threat of all mankind. There are no words or action worthy enough to repay for what the girls have done.
The girls didn't ask for anything though. They just let out a smile each and one by one, they each said one thing.
"Take care, Townsville."
"We'll always love you."
"And we'll always kick butt."
Those were the last words before they all giggled and disappeared in a blinding flash. Everyone had to shield their eyes and soon found that they weren't there anymore. Only more snow fell from the horizon.
The girls are gone.
Forever.
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