Powerpuff Love

Chapter 7: Blood and Suds

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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...At the old abandoned building...

Momoko's POV

"Stop...please..." I beg breathlessly.

"What was that, pink Puff? I couldn't quite hear you over the sound of your pathetic sister's screaming." He roundhouse kicks a still unconscious Miyako in her torso. I cry out for her but she's unable to move. Her blonde hair is tinted red with her blood.

I twist around in Snake and Big Billy's hold on me, with no chance of escape. My belt was left behind at the house when Miyako and I were taken. When we heard a knock at the front door not long after Kaoru left, we thought it may have been her coming back for something she'd forgotten. But when Miyako opened the door, a beaming smile on her face, it soon turned grim as a gnarly, green fist came in collision with her face, instantly knocking her out cold. I ran toward her as she fell backwards, catching her before she hit the ground. I looked up in horror at malicious eyes blocked by cat-eye shades. A sinister smile formed on the cracking green lips before everything went black.

I woke up here, in the abandoned house Kaoru had told me about all those years ago, where everything for her changed. Where her passionate, burning hatred for Ace Greene was born.

How disgustingly ironic that she should be drawn to this place again by the very same person who showed it to her in the first place.

"Why are you doing this?" I mutter, barely audible. "Do you really despise us so much that you'd go through the trouble of kidnapping and torturing us?"

Ace turns to me, his arms crossed over his thin chest.

"I'll let you in on a little secret, Puff," he hints at by the tone of his voice. "I did all of this for her, for Buttercup."

"For Kaoru...?"

He sighs. "I need to see her again."

"See her? After what you did to her? You deserve to rot in hell."

He laughs. A small one, completely amused, like I was nothing but a joke to him.

"It's not all about BC," he says, pacing to what used to be a window but is now covered with rotting wood, his back the only thing I can see. "It's about Butch, too."

"Butch has absolutely nothing to do with what happened between you and Buttercup."

"Oh, but see that's where you're gravely mistaken, pinky. Butch is the very reason why I even entertained the thought of being with Buttercup in the first place."

I shake my head in confusion. "What do you want with Butch?"

His head turns over his shoulder as he looks at me with an expression reminiscent of a beast stalking its prey in the dead of night.

"I want to kill him."

What?

"Him and his lousy brothers. I want every single one of them dead."

Buttercup's POV

"And you're sure they're here? 100% certain?"

"Brick," I say smoothly, gripping tighter on the handle of my hammer, "if you ask me that one more time then I will Smash Block you into the ground. Six. Feet. Under," I emphasize slowly. I hear him gulp and continue onward with Boomer.