The Powerpuff Girls Page #3

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Ms. Keane:
Okay class, take your seats.

[A girl and a boy at one table gesture to Ms. Keane.]

Girl #1:
Ms. Keane, can Blossom sit with us?

Girl #2:
Can we sit with Bubbles?

[A brown-haired boy, with a gruff Popeye-like voice, gestures at Buttercup. His shirt says Mitch Rocks, implying but not stating his name.]

Mitch:
Can Buttercup sit over here?

[Ms. Keane walks over and places the girls at an empty table in the center.]

Ms. Keane:
The girls can sit right here in the middle, so they‘ll be next to everyone! (the class erupts in cheers) Now, let’s begin!

[Focus on the clock, which fades from 9 am to noon. A knock on the door it’s Professor Utonium, waving sheepishly with a silly grin.]

Ms. Keane:
Hello Professor, right on time! Your girls are right outside with the other children.

[The Professor spies the messy classroom, and becomes distraught.]

Professor:
Oh no! Look at this mess! Ohh, I knew the girls would be a handful, but I’m so sorry.

Ms. Keane:
What, this? (scoffs) This is what happens when you put twenty little kids in one room. Your girls were perfect. Perfect, normal, well-behaved little girls.

Professor:
Nothing out of the ordinary?

Ms. Keane:
No, like what?

[Cut to the girls, with another child, unnamed but similar to Kim (from Mojo Jonesin). Buttercup and Blossom watch on as Bubbles plays hopscotch, throwing a stone to the second square and hopping there. Blossom approves while Buttercup frowns.]

Blossom:
That was sweet!

Buttercup:
What’s the point of this game anyway?

[Mitch runs up, and bumps the other girl.]

Mitch:
Tag! You’re it! (she giggles, runs after him)

[The kids all run away from the girl in a circular pattern, while the Utonium kids stand still, confused.]

Blossom:
Whoa! Everyone’s running from that girl! It’s like she’s been infected!

Buttercup:
Maybe she’s a freak.

Bubbles:
Yeah, and they hate her!

[Another nondescript girl appears, and touches Bubbles on the arm Bubbles looks very distressed.]

Girl #3:
Tag, you’re it!

Bubbles:
Oh no! I’ve been infected!

[Mitch walks in.]

Mitch:
All right, what’s going on here?

Bubbles:
I’ve been infected.

Mitch:
(smacks head) You’re not in-fec-ted, it’s just a game!

Bubbles:
It is?

Mitch:
Yeah!

Blossom:
A game; neat!

Buttercup:
Yeah, how do we play?

Mitch:
(groans) Okay, look: it’s very simple. Bubbles, tag me.

[He outstretches his arm to Bubbles. She looks hesitantly at it.]

Mitch:
Come on, it’s okay.

[Very slowly she reaches forward and pokes him quickly before quickly withdrawing]

Mitch:
All right, now I’m it. And all you gots to do to play is tag someone else. (Tags Buttercup) And they’re it! (walks out, and walks back) By the way, you’re it! (runs away)

Buttercup:
Awesome, I’m it! (shaking her arms) What do I do, what do I do, what do I do?!

Mitch:
(running away) Just tag someone else! And they’re it!

[Buttercup looks at him a bit uncertainly. Then her eyes shift over to her sisters, as her brows furrow in a mischievously wicked smile. Blossom and Bubbles look at each other uneasily, then back at Buttercup, nervous smiles planted on their faces. Then run off slowly, as Buttercup breaks into a big smile and pursues them. The other two girls giggle as they run. Looking back, Blossom sees her green-eyed sister catching up to them.]

Blossom:
Time to put it into overdrive, Bubbles!

[They speed up in tempo with the music, quickly passing by Ms. Keane, the Professor, and the other schoolchildren. Buttercup senses this, and likewise increases her speed. The other two girls see where this is going, and again increase their speed, their eyes clenched shut in concentration. As the girls continue to increase their speed, the music reaches a frantic pace, and the scenery becomes a speedy blur. As Buttercup races forward, a green trail begins to emanate behind her, and a streak of fire issues from her feet. Bubbles, blissfully unaware of her sisters proximity, is caught unawares as Buttercup gives her a full-force shove, sending her careening out of control.]

Buttercup:
Tag! You’re IT!

[Accentuating her last word, Bubbles is sent grinding into the pavement and blasting a huge wall into the side of the school. The schoolyard audience leaps back in shock and fear. Bubbles comes bursting out of the roof in a blue parabolic arc, feet jackknifing downwards as she falls.]

Bubbles:
I’m gonna tag you guys now!

[The other girls quickly break through the schoolyard fence, narrowly avoiding capture as Bubbles slams into the pavement, creating a dust cloud and a large crater. As she slowly pops her head out of the hole, Buttercup and Blossom are a good ten yards away, standing straight and looking at their deposed sister.]

Buttercup:
Ha ha! You missed us!

[Bubbles stands there pensively for a moment, then quickly smashes them into a house across the street.]

Bubbles:
Ha ha! Tag! You’re it!

[The scene zooms back to show the desiccated house, and the skyline of Townsville. As the girls voices fade out, the results of their mayhem become apparent, as explosions, crashes, flying trees, cars, and cows evidence their destruction.]

Blossom:
No! No, I’m not! Tag, you’re it!

Buttercup:
Tag!

Blossom:
Missed me! No, you’re it!

Buttercup:
Missed me!

Blossom:
Tag!

Bubbles:
Tag!

Buttercup:
Gotcha!

Blossom:
Missed me!

[Their voices trail off into the distance, as a slow pan shows the schoolchildren looking onward in gaping astonishment. The scene zooms in on the Professor and Ms. Keane. As the teacher stares blankly at what has just transpired, the Professor grins sheepishly again, and takes this convenient opportunity to leave unnoticed through the quite-ample new doorway.]

[Cut to the Professor rushing off from home in his car. His license plate reads PRFDADY (a reference to either the words Professor Daddy, or a sly reference to Craig McCrackens handle PuffDaddy on PPG forums.) Bubbles and Buttercup, flying at super speed, rush through the city and over a sign that reads, You are now leaving the City of Townsville.]

Bubbles:
Whee!

[Blossom busts right through the sign, clearly the one who is it. The Professor, moments too late, speeds down the nearby street.]

Professor:
Girls, wait!

[Bubbles and Buttercup zip around buildings to avoid their tagged sister. The view focuses in on Blossom, hairbow swept back by the wind as she makes several hairpin turns. In a rear view, as she starts to catch up to her other sisters, they speed up, setting all three off in a dazzling whirl of 90 degree turns through the city streets. As they fly, they drag items from papers to cars in the vacuum of their wake. A red ball is also seen bouncing merrily along. At one point, Blossom gasps, and grinds her feet to a halt in front of two very surprised people. Using her super hearing, accentuated by animated sonar waves, Blossom cups her arm to her ear, hearing Buttercups joyful laughter, and a taunting can’t catch me from Bubbles. (The building reads 801 a reference to ppg801, the codename and web address for the ppg movie before the official website.) Pausing momentarily to decide where to go, Blossom zips off to the right, leaving the two onlookers to stare at her trail, before narrowly avoiding the flying debris that strikes the buildings front, notably a car, whose collision is accentuated from several angles. The Professor, still in control of his vehicle, is not far behind, hanging a hard right to follow Blossom. His face is marked with worry.]

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