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Chapter 10
Hair Ties and Fiery Eyes
Laina heard the annoying Russian accent before seeing its owner. She groaned and tried to roll over, but she didn't have the energy. Knowing there was no escaping it, she opened her eyes.
"What is it, Dexter?"
"Oh, no name-calling today?" Dexter asked with fake astonishment.
Laina mumbled, "I don't have the oomph."
"Thank goodness." Laina glared at the boy genius. "Kidding, kidding. I'm going to tend to Cyber now."
Panic took over Laina's mind. "What happened to Cyber?"
"Fusion Coco attacked her. She came out with a broken arm and a few other injuries, but nothing that can't be fixed," Dexter replied.
"Well, say to her "hi" for me, okay?"
Dexter said he would and Laina shooed him out of the room with a wave of her hand. She stared at the white ceiling and walls, weariness overcoming her again. She yawned and was about to fall asleep when she saw the bandages on her ankles. She screamed, not knowing what they were doing there.
Someone on the other side of the room sat upright and coughed. Laina whipped her head around to see who it was, her eyes wide. When she got a good look, she frowned and laid back down.
"Don't scream so loud," said Brydon. "There are other people in here too."
Laina snorted. "Only you, and you don't count as a person."
"Gee, thanks," said Brydon, rolling his eyes. "So, what happened to you?"
Laina glanced at the bandages and answered, "I kicked Fusion Coco and she ran after me. I ran away so I could get her away from you, but she caught up with me and whacked me in the head with her, um, wings? I don't know what they're called anymore. Then I fell over and she kicked me again. She was about to kill me when Cyber did something, I don't know what."
"I heard Bubbles say, "Buttercup?" What's up with that?" Brydon's nose scrunched up.
"I think Buttercup destroyed Fusion Coco. No idea where she came from, though."
They sat in silence for a minute until Brydon spoke up again.
"How did you end up working in Tech Square, anyway?"
Laina readjusted her head on the pillow and sighed. "Why do you want to know?"
"Because you're my work partner," said Brydon slowly. "I want to know."
"Fine, I'll tell you," started Laina. "When I transferred to Pokey Oaks Junior High, right before the invasion, I met Dexter and the Powerpuff Girls. I was friends with the girls, but Dexter was just my acquaintance. When I was there, I became known for good leadership skills and knowing how to get things done. When the war started, Dexter came up to me and asked me to help him."
"Ah, I see. But why do you and Dexter argue so much?" Brydon questioned.
Laina closed her eyes. "Two different mindsets, I guess. He goes through complicated equations while I just take the simple way out. How did you end up being here?"
Brydon fiddled with his bed sheets. "I don't wanna talk about it."
Laina opened one eye. She was going to push him to talk, but then she saw how uncomfortable he was. She let out an exasperated sigh. Didn't he know that not telling her was going to make her more curious?
"Okay, then."
Brydon looked surprised. "Really? I thought you would keep asking."
"You looked uncomfortable," said Laina, feeling her face go warm. "I can be nice when I want to be, you know. You don't have to look so surprised."
There was another silence, but it was broken when Brydon said, "You look nice with your hair out."
"What?" Laina checked her hair and realised it wasn't in its normal pigtails. "No, I look so bad with my hair loose!"
Brydon just laughed. Laina sent him a glare before she looked around frantically for her hair ties.
Buttercup hated hospitals. Sure, she loved blood, guts and beating people up, but the smell and the atmosphere was just horrible. Even though she could hear phones ringing and portable hospital beds moving from place to place, it was dead silent to her. She was overwhelmed with everything that had happened in the past day.
"Buttercup? Blossom's going to be okay, isn't she?" asked Bubbles from the chair next to her.
Buttercup replied, "Yeah, she is. The doctor said so."
The two of them almost jumped when they heard Buttercup's custom ringtone: a song composed by Ace, just for her. She slowly took it out of her pocket, already knowing who it was. She pressed the 'decline call' button and slipped it back into her pocket. Bubbles gave her a confused look.
"Who was that?" she asked.
"Ace," Buttercup answered, growling.
Bubbles cocked her head to one side. "Isn't he your boyfriend?"
Buttercup sighed. "We're not getting along so great at the moment."
"Oh," said Bubbles, sensing her sister's sadness and deciding to leave her alone.
Buttercup thought back to what happened before the battle.
"When were you going to tell me?" asked Buttercup, ready to throw something at Ace.
Ace cowered. "When you got your memory back."
"You could have at least told me I had sisters and a father. You didn't even tell me I used to be your enemy!" Buttercup shouted.
Buttercup was more than angry. Sure, Ace had taken her in when she was sick and helped her, but why didn't he tell her? She'd gone a whole year with those painful flashbacks. She confronted him about it, he told her the truth and she had her whole memory back again. Now she just wanted to know what was happening.
"I was going to, Buttercup," defended Ace.
"Then why didn't you?"
Ace didn't answer. That was enough for her.
"That's it. I'm going to help with that battle everyone's talking about. See ya later, if I feel like it."
With that, she walked out of the recording studio.
"Bubbles? Buttercup? You can see Blossom now," said the doctor.
Bubbles clutched and squeezed Buttercup's hand as they entered the room. She went right up to her sister's side while Buttercup stayed in the doorway. Blossom was the only patient there, even though there was another bed on the other side of the room. She had obviously been lucky enough to get a room all to herself.
"Hey, Blossom, how are you doing?" Bubbles asked, her voice full of concern.
Blossom smiled weakly. "I've been better." She tried to move over on the bed, but cringed.
"Don't move!" Bubbles screeched, slightly panicked. "You have a sprained ankle and bruised ribs!"
"Yeah, you're lucky your ribs aren't cracked," Buttercup added from the doorway.
"Buttercup?" Blossom attempted to sit up, but yelled in pain. "When, what, why, where?"
Buttercup grinned and moved to her sister's side. "After Mojo threw me into the ocean, I got washed up on the shore. Ace and the rest of the Gang Green Gang found me and took me in. I had amnesia, so I didn't remember them or you or anything. I became Belladonna and everything was cool. A little bit before the war started, I started having these flashbacks that gave me headaches. I only learnt before the battle at Mount Blackhead that you were my sisters. I asked Ace about it and he told me everything. I got my memory back after that."
"Yeah, then she defeated Fusion Coco for us!" Bubbles finished.
"Cool," said Blossom, her voice slightly hoarse. "So where's Ace now?"
Buttercup's face fell. "I got into an argument with him about the whole memory thing. He's been calling me, but I don't really want to talk to him."
"Oh," said Blossom. "Where's the professor?"
Bubbles and Buttercup shrugged, but a voice from the doorway said, "I saw him talking to that Dexter guy."
Without turning around, Buttercup groaned. "Hi, Ace."
An awkward silence filled the room. Buttercup refused to look at her boyfriend, instead glaring at the wall. Blossom and Bubbles exchanged worried looks. Ace was trying not to look nervous.
"Buttercup, I need to talk to you," said Ace.
Buttercup turned one hundred and eighty degrees and stomped up to Ace. She grabbed him by his collar and pulled him in so they were almost nose-to-nose. Fire was burning in her eyes.
"No, I'll talk to you. You took me in and cared for me, which I am grateful for. You let me be the lead singer in you band. You gave me fame. The one thing you didn't give me was my memories, even though you had the ability to. I had family and friends waiting for my return. I had a green monkey to pulverise and I had the power to help in this war. I don't care what your explanation is. The point is that you lied about something this big. Get lost, Ace."
Buttercup let him go and he fell flat on his back. She slammed the door on his feet and turned back to her sisters.
"Well," she began, "that made me feel a lot better."
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