A/N: For those curious, this is set before that big Powerpuff Girls crossover you guys got to read last year. So... Read & Review. That's all I got.
A certain adventure group was soon traveling in a bus to take them into a new city away from home in Greendale.
"So, any word on what this adventure will be about?" Cherry wondered.
"According to the information, we're helping a kid named Dexter." Atticus replied.
"I heard about him," Lionel replied. "The kid's a total supergenius!"
"It's also interesting to have you along for the ride." Cherry said, looking over to another team member who had come.
"I have to say, I'm surprised to come along myself." The leader of the Powerpuff Girls, Blossom Utonium, replied.
"Well, two really smart people are better than one!" Lionel replied.
"Aw... Thank you... Though I wouldn't say I'm that smart." Blossom smiled bashfully.
"Blossom, do you know Dexter?" Atticus asked.
"I've heard of him," Blossom said. "The Professor says Dexter reminds him a lot of him when he got interested in science before he went to create me, Bubbles, and Buttercup."
"Cool..." Mo replied.
"I hope we get there soon," Blossom said. "You think you guys will use magic in this adventure?"
"Eh, probably, probably not," Cherry replied. "Since this kid has his own lab, it'll mostly be sci-fi orientated like Star Wars."
"Or something like that," Lionel replied. "Maybe a Blade Runner/Terminator sort of thing, perhaps?"
"Well, I'm ready for anything, especially with meeting this Dexter... Dexter..." Blossom said. "Uh, what is his last name again?"
"Honestly, nobody really knows for sure." Atticus replied.
"Maybe it's Milo or Cavanaugh, can't really say." Cherry shrugged.
"Ah, well," Blossom replied. "We shouldn't be too long now."
"Yeah, we should be in Huber County shortly." Lionel replied.
Blossom looked out the window with a hopeful smile.
"I hope your sisters will be fine back home." Cherry said.
"Ah, they'll be fine..." Blossom replied. "Though Bubbles is talking about Boomer a lot like she's in love with him."
"...They DO look a little cute together." Cherry said to her.
"Aren't they technically cousins, since Mojo created them?" Lionel asked.
"Sure if you wanna get all technical." Atticus replied.
"Don't you like a boy named Jared Shapiro?" Mo asked Blossom.
"...I don't know who that is, and I don't think I should waste my time with him," Blossom said. "He sounds really boring."
"He IS boring!" Lionel snickered.
"Hey, Blossom!" waved Jared Shapiro as he walked by.
"...Who are you?" Blossom asked blankly.
"It's me, Jared Shapiro," The boy said to her. "I go to Midway Elementary School with you."
"What're you talking about?" Blossom asked. "I go to Pokey Oaks Kindergarten with my sisters... And Megaville Elementary in that one webcomic... Also Cartoon Network School in PerkyGoth14's other fan fiction universe-... Wait, why am I explaining all of this to you?"
"Yeah! What the heck is this Midway Elementary, and what do you even do?" Lionel asked.
"It's a school in our home of Townsville...?" Jared said to Blossom before coming up to her with a flirty smile. "We hang out together a lot, mostly with me as your love interest... Like that Mike Mazinsky kid in the other fan fiction universe."
"Get away from me!" Blossom flew out of his hold and shot laser eyes at him in disgust. "You're creepy! I'm not interested in even being a relationship anyway!"
"Yeah!" Lionel added. "Get lost, ya creeper!"
"You wanna toss him out like we did with Jar-Jar Binks in the Abra Catastrophe story?" Atticus asked Cherry.
"Sure." Cherry replied.
They soon threw Jared out into the skies which made him scream out as he was tossed very hard.
"Honestly, I thought Jar-Jar was alright," Lionel replied. "Though that was mostly because the Star Wars fanbase acts like anything but. Honestly, it makes me wonder if we even deserve Star Wars if people are just gonna complain about it all the time."
"I'm not a fan of Jar-Jar myself, but I'll admire you for standing out." Cherry replied.
"And that's why I think it would be a lousy idea to do a Star Wars adaptation," Lionel replied. "That and the films are way too long."
"What about the crossover with Phineas and Ferb?" Atticus suggested.
"Okay, that's at least tolerable," Lionel replied. "Especially because it has characters that we all recognize!"
"Right." Atticus nodded once.
"Anyways... We're almost in Huber County." Mo stated.
"All right," Cherry said as she took out her bag to get ready to go. "Looks like a nice, quiet day so far."
"But knowing our adventures, it'll change soon." Atticus replied.
"Yeah, especially with someone like Dexter on our team." Lionel added.
They soon enjoyed the rest of the ride until they would soon stop.
Eventually, the bus stopped, dropping them off, and the group walked off, though Blossom flew since it was faster than walking for her, especially since her legs weren't really designed for walking.
"So this is Huber..." Cherry noted. "Pretty dull so far."
"A little bit." Mo replied.
They soon walked down the street and looked around to find their destination, and they soon went up to one house.
"I feel like this might be it." Atticus told the others.
And so they approached the front door and gave it a knock.
A redheaded woman soon came out with a curious smile. "Yes?"
"Uh... Yes... Does a Dexter live here?" Atticus asked.
"Why, yes... Oh! Are you friends of his?" The woman replied.
Lionel pondered briefly. "Eh... Sure!" he replied.
"Well, all right, come on in." The redheaded woman smiled.
"Thank you, Mrs...?" Atticus replied.
"My name is Suzanne McPherson, but you can call me 'Dexter's mom'," The woman replied. "Everyone else does."
Lionel blinked in surprise. "Okay then!" he shrugged as they went inside.
"Dexter, you have some visitors!" Dexter's mother called out. "He must be playing in his room... He does that all the time." she then smiled to the guests.
"Good to know." Mo replied.
The group soon came upstairs.
"Dexter...?" Cherry called, coming into one bedroom.
A blonde girl with pigtails in her hair in a pink ballerina tutu with white tights and pink ballet slippers looked over with an overly happy smile as she sat down, having a tea party with some stuffed animals.
"Heh... Sorry..." Cherry said bashfully.
"Wrong room, me-thinks." Lionel replied.
"Tell me about it." Cherry said.
"Yay! New friends!" The blonde girl beamed, leaping out.
"Yah!" Cherry yelped, getting tackled onto the floor.
"Hi, my name is Dee Dee!" The blonde girl smiled. "Will you play with me?"
"Sorry, can't stay," Lionel replied as he pulled Cherry free. "We're looking for someone called Dexter. You wouldn't happen to know where he is, wouldja?"
"Oooohh... You want my brother..." Dee Dee said before pointing over. "He's across the hall in his room in his secret laboratory, but he doesn't like people going in there, especially me."
"Secret lab...?" Lionel blinked in disbelief.
"Hey," Dee Dee smiled to Blossom, pointing in between her face. "How come you don't have a nose?"
"That's on a need to know basis," replied Blossom. "And you don't really need to know."
"Ooohhh... Okaaaay." Dee Dee said.
They soon came into Dexter's bedroom which looked like a normal room for a little boy to have with a bookshelf, some toys scattered on the floor, though the boy seemed to have his own desktop computer with a poster of Albert Einstein.
"Cool!" Atticus said, making the others look to him as he looked in Dexter's bookshelf. "There's a Samurai Jack action figure in here!"
Lionel squinted at it. "Pretty awesome, if you ask me!" he replied.
"But where's Dexter?" Blossom wondered, looking around until she saw a book out of place and went to put it back.
However, as she did, the bookshelf shook a bit and seemed to open up a secret passageway. The group stared in amazement as the bookshelf opened up, revealing an entire room full of shiny, cobalt-blue machinery.
"Whoa... Check out this place..." Cherry said. "It's more impressive than Jimmy Neutron's lab."
"Not to mention more expansive." Lionel added.
A very short redheaded boy with glasses in a white lab coat, black boots, and purple gloves was seen to be working on something.
Lionel squinted. "That must be Dexter..."
"I'm sure of it." Blossom said.
The group walked over together as the boy continued to work until he sensed a disturbance.
"DEE DEE, GET OUT OF MY LAB-OR-A-TORY!" The boy soon snapped, speaking in a different accent from his family.
"Ah, nope, she's in her room." Lionel replied.
"Oh..." Dexter blinked, seeing all of them. "You are not my seester... Who the heck are you and how did you get in here?"
"It's a bit of a long story, but my name is Cherry Butler," Cherry replied. "This is my friend/brother figure, Atticus Fudo, his girlfriend and my cousin, Mo Brown, my boyfriend, Lionel Schwartz, and one of our friends, Blossom Utonium."
"Hi, I-" Blossom smiled, coming up to Dexter until she looked at him, feeling different somehow.
Dexter looked at Blossom, and his face turned a light shade of red.
"I... I... I... I..." Blossom stammered, almost like the Professor when he first met Ima Goodlady AKA Sedusa.
"This feels so familiar..." Lionel whispered.
"Huh, you see it too, huh?" Mo replied.
"So... That was Blossom..." Cherry smirked. "We're not here to invade your lab though, Dexter. We're just visitors, we were sent to help you with something, but... Nothing seems to be wrong around here."
"So far, at least." Atticus added.
"Well... I suppose you can visit... But do not touch anything... Do not push any buttons... And do not tell anyone about this place." Dexter told them.
"Hmm... Sounds easy to remember: no touching, no button pushing, and no telling. Got it!" Lionel replied.
Dexter nodded and soon went back to work for the time being.
"You look pretty busy... We won't bother you." Blossom said bashfully.
"Well... I dunno... You could work with me if you like..." Dexter replied.
"Oh! Uh, okay..." Blossom smiled. "My dad's a scientist after all."
Dexter coughed in surprise. "Really? I imagine that you might've picked up some know-how from him..." he replied sheepishly.
"I know some stuff, yes," Blossom smiled. "May I?"
"Um... Well... Sure." Dexter smiled back.
The others seemed to smirk to each other, sensing a connection between the two.
"I guess we can give 'em some time together." Atticus suggested.
"Yeaaah..." The others agreed, walking off briefly.
"I'm almost tempted to call, but I don't wanna waste a minute on our long-distance carrier with the Spell Phone." Cherry said, taking out a paper with instructions.
Lionel looked over it, his eyes roving over the paper. "Uh-huh, yup, right, got it," His ears then shot up. "Do you hear footsteps?"
"Footsteps?" The others asked.
Atticus put his hand to his ear. "Now that you mention it..." he then said.
The group followed the source of the footsteps until they saw a tall, skinny kid cloaked in an evil-looking cape and gloves, reaching for a glowing green orb.
"Yes... Yes..." The figure's voice said, reaching out. "With this all-powerful neurotonic protocor in my possession, I'll make the world mine! Hahahaha!"
"Freeze, dirtbag!" Cherry glared.
"Unhand that neurotonic protocor, Mandark!" Dexter demanded.
"Who said that?" The kid glared back.
"WE did!" Lionel, Blossom, and Dexter announced as they sprang into action.
"Blast you, Dexter and your new friends!" Mandark glared before smirking to himself. "Hey, now there's an idea; blast Dexter and his new friends, yes... BLAST YA THREE!"
"I don't think so!" Blossom glared as she flew in mid-air. "...Whoever you are."
"Mandark... My arch-nemesis," Dexter explained. "He's been trying to one-up me for months..."
"I see," Blossom crossed her arms. "Well, you're not going to do it again today, Mandark!"
Mandark soon began to shoot lasers at them until Dexter brought out a wrench, hitting the blasts back before landing on the floor, kicking Mandark away and destroying his gun by whacking it with his wrench.
"Whoa. Not bad." Cherry approved.
"Know this, Mandark," Dexter remarked. "As long as I live, you will never possess the Neurotronic Protocore. I swear it."
"Now it's time for you to go." Atticus said, literally kicking Mandark out of the boy genius's house.
Mandark hit the ground and soon stood back up as the door was slammed shut. "And know this, Dexter," he then spoke up with a glare. "As long as I live I shall one day possess the Neurotronic Protocore and rule the world! I swear it."
"Now that THAT is taken care of, I can get back to work!" Dexter smiled as he went back to his project.
"Sounds good to me." Blossom smiled back.
Eventually, Dee Dee came into the lab to play around and be a nuisance. She soon saw her little brother at work and soon walked up right beside him, and was about to say something.
"Stop your gibberish, woman," Dexter said, covering her mouth before noise left her mouth. "I have no time for you today, much too much has happened, so I bid you adieu."
Dee Dee rolled her eyes in irritance and walked away.
"The exit is that way." Dexter remarked, pointing in the opposite direction.
Dee Dee firmly pouted, crossing her arms, sticking her tongue out and soon walked away.
"Well, that was kind of rude." Blossom said.
"If you knew what I had to put up with, you would not think so." Dexter replied.
"I guess we can take your word for it." Lionel shrugged.
Dee Dee soon kicked a bolt away on her way out and went through a door which seemed to not be the exit. Once she disappeared, someone came through the door after her which appeared to be a robot army of some sort.
"DEE DEE, HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU TO STAY OUT OF MY LAB-OR-" Dexter snapped, hearing footsteps, then turned around to see the robot army right behind him. "You are not Dee Dee... W-W-W-Who are you...?"
"We are here to destroy the ones who saved the future." The first robot said, initiating battle mode.
Lionel glanced around. "Guess that's us, then." he shrugged.
"Erm... Saved the future?" Cherry asked. "I don't think we-"
Dexter soon screamed for dear life, running around in a circle.
"Well... Then let's show these tinker toys why they should fear us!" Lionel remarked as he took out a pair of nunchucks.
Dexter kept running and screaming.
"WILL YOU STOP THAT?!" Cherry snapped, making him stop.
"You are right..." Dexter said before glaring. "No robots are going to threaten me and my lab... Even if they are from the future!"
"Thatta boy!" Atticus smiled.
"You're a genius, aren't you?" Blossom asked. "Then let's send these creeps to the scrap heap!"
"I couldn't agree more!" Dexter replied. "Futuristic robots... Prepare to meet your maker!" he then proclaimed, ripping off his clothes to show some sort of bodysuit.
"Um...?" Blossom blinked rapidly.
Dexter soon did a back-flip, pushing a button on the suit, changing him into a black techno suit of some sort.
"Way past cool!" Lionel exclaimed. "Now let's get trashin'!"
Dexter yelled out, giving himself a hover disc and flew towards the robots with them, tossing a couple of discs which sliced up the robots.
"Why would you wanna destroy us for even saving the future?" Blossom complained, using her laser eyes.
"The bad guys from the future must have sent them." Atticus replied as he threw one robot into another.
"Well, we'll just have to fix that, won't we?" Mo added as he soon made a vine appear in the middle of the floor to tie up some of the robots.
Cherry soon took out a hammer from her dream-bending abilities, whacking some of the robots like in a Whack-a-Mole. Blossom used her laser vision to melt some of the robots, while Lionel spun his nunchaku to create cyclones to drag the robots in and tear them apart.
"What do you say we fight fire with fire?" Dexter suggested.
"What do you propose?" Cherry asked.
Dexter smirked, taking out a wrist controller, pushing the button to summon his own robot which he used for battles sometimes. "This really came in handy when I was once a foreign exchange student for Japan." he then told them.
"Cool...!" Lionel grinned.
"You make that yourself?" Cherry asked.
"Indeed." Dexter nodded.
"Impressive!" Blossom exclaimed.
"Why, thank you." Dexter replied.
Blossom and Dexter smiled to each other, though they seemed to blush from each other's smiles. Dexter soon used his robot to take down the final robot by stomping on it.
"Alright! We won!" Lionel exclaimed.
"Well, that was easy," Dexter smirked, patting his hands in victory. "No robots from the future can destroy this little genius, but boy, oh, boy! I must be something else for somebody to go through all of this trouble! Boy, oh, boy..."
"How's your ego?" Cherry smirked playfully.
"Dexter: the boy who saved the future!" Dexter continued. "Oh, I can't wait for the future!"
"Hey. Those tin-heads came after us too!" Lionel explained. "So I bet the bad guys just learned their robots got trashed, and they intend to send more after us! We gotta go to the future and stop them!"
"Now we just got a find a way to get to the future." Cherry said.
"Wait... I don't have to wait for the future," Dexter piped up. "We'll just get into my old, trusty time machine, and ZAP! BOOM! BAH! We'll get to see how cool we are!"
They soon walked off with Dexter in excitement as they went into the time machine which appeared to be like a grandfather clock.
"Okay then..." Blossom replied. "Let's get this show on the road!"
"Road?" Lionel asked. "Where we're going... We don't need roads."
Blossom and Dexter looked blank-faced while Cherry chuckled to the reference. Suddenly, in a whir of energy, the time machine lit up, sending our time-traveling heroes into the future!