Powerpuff Love

Chapter 5: It's Not Easy Being Green

AN - This chapter has been edited and changed drastically. To all of my present readers: I hope that if you decide to re-read any of the story's chapters, you enjoy them more now than before the changes were made. To all of my new and future readers: thank you for taking the time to read PPL!

On with the chapter!

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...Still at the treehouse...

Buttercup's POV

"What the fuck is he doing in New Townsville? I thought we sent him TO PRISON! How did Ace fucking Greene escape PRISON?!"

Ace Greene.

My thoughts taunt me. He has my sisters captive, doing all sorts of horrible things to them. And here I am, on a now ruined date, crying, feeling helpless when in reality I should be red with fury.

But I'm not.

The things he did to me will haunt me for the rest of my life, even if he's dead or alive. The torture he put me through is unspeakable, pure evil. He is black. He is heartless. His soul was created solely to make my life hell. He was created to kill me, and he almost did had it not been for my sisters and Butch saving me.

And now he was back in New Townsville, in my home, with my sisters, and I wasn't there. I was here. Crying.

Butch calms down and sympathetically strokes my arm, eventually pulling me into his warm, strong embrace. I sob into his shirt, causing temporary tear stains.

"I'm sorry, Butter bunches. You know I didn't mean to scream at you. I'm just angry."

"I should be too, and I'm not..." I cry out quietly over my sniffling and whimpering. I sound like a child who woke up from a bad nightmare. Only thing is, mine is real.

"It's okay to be scared. You usually aren't, and that's only because you want to be strong for your sisters; but you don't have to be, not all the time. It's okay to need help sometimes, Buttercup, and that's all you need is a little help. I'm going to help you, and I'm going to protect you and your sisters. We're in this together, babe. Always have been, always will be." I grunt sadly and weakly punch his bicep that wasn't curretly wrapped around me. Another fluttering-stomach chuckle spills out past his plump, pink lips. Blush.

"I am really pissed off right now, and I'm even more scared, but most of all I'm embarrassed, by you. Always have been, always will be," I mirror from his not-long-ago speech.

I stand and power up, collecting my phone and Butch who sat looking up my skirt. "My sisters have been kidnapped by my insane ex-boyfriend and here you are looking up my skirt, you fucking sicko."

"Never gave me permission not to." I roll my eyes and jump off the edge, falling close to the ground before taking off with Butch right by my side.

With Ace, I knew we couldn't just burst inside and fight him and the rest of the Gangreen Gang. Not that I couldn't do it, because I easily could. But if I wanted to have any chance of finding him before he kills my sisters, I'd need a plan to sneak my way in before he noticed me and finish him off for good.

As much as I don't want to admit it, I am going to need some help.

...Soon after at the Powerpuff residence...

"This whole plan doesn't need to be anything too extreme. Ace is evil, ruthless, cruel, and downright mental, but he's a real idiot. All we need to do is get rid of the others, grab my sisters, and capture Ace without him knowing when we ever came. I'll deal with Ace personally."

"But—"

"You follow my orders, Butch. Everyone does. Got that?" Brick and Boomer nod in compliance. I roll my eyes annoyingly when I see Butch does not do the same, glaring off in a sideways direction.

"If you have a problem with the way I want to run this," I say looking straight at him, "you don't have to help."

Butch's POV

Buttercup wasn't fucking around. These were her sisters Ace had taken captive. She will do everything in her power to stop him, even if that means pushing herself beyond her emotional and physical limits. The least I can do is support her decision and aid her however I can.

I finally nod in agreement and defeat.

"If we're going to do this, we have to do it right. There is no room for screw ups, so if you can't handle this then I don't need you here."

No one left. We all stare at Buttercup and smirk at her inspirationally rude speech. I wrap my arm over her shoulders and throw my fist in the air.

"Let's do it!"

...At a secret location...

Momoko's POV

"STOP IT!"

A blood-curdling scream pours out of Miyako's mouth. She wriggles to free herself from the wrist-clamping chains with no success. I glare at Ace through my blinding tears and launch myself at him only to be held back by Snake and Big Billy. It wasn't just hell watching Miyako be tortured, but extremely embarrassing that I couldn't break free of the grasps of the two dumbest people in the gang.

"I miss hearing your pleading, Hyper Blossom. I hope that Powered Buttercup got our little message. This party is more fun than I'd have ever expected!" Ace chuckles and lashes Miyako's back twice more. I flinch at the impacts.

"Buttercup isn't stupid. She isn't an adolescent anymore. You'll never get away with this, DO YOU HEAR ME?!"

"Never?" He opens a bottle of whiskey and pours it into Miyako's wounds. I hear the sizzling of her skin.

"S-Sei-Seita, rou..." she cries out, tears staining her face.

"Begging for your boyfriend to come save you?" He snatches a grip of her face with one strong hand and smushes her cheeks together. "Fat chance," he argues, punching her out cold. I fall limp at Ace's cruel nature. I don't understand how one person could live without human emotion.

He isn't just crazy, he's a psychopath.

He smirks at me, his hands tucked away in his ripped skinny jeans pockets. My shaking pink eyes meet his. He bends down to meet my nose level. His dry green lips uncurl and turn up in a toothy grin.

"Your turn."