The Powerpuff Girls Page #8

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Jojo:
The plan!

Buttercup:
What plan?

Jojo:
Our plan!

Bubbles:
To do what?

Jojo:
To make the town better, of course.

Girls (All):
What?

[Jojo lays out a blueprint. On it is the basic design of his volcano top observatory seen in many episodes. (It also says ppg801, another clever codename reference.)]

Jojo:
You know, using my ideas and your powers, we will build the help-the-town-and-make-it-a-better-place machine. That way everyone will see that our special abilities are good, then everyone will love us. Remember? It was your idea!

[The three girls look hesitantly at each other.]

Blossom:
Uhh… oh yeah! But use our powers?

Jojo:
Yes!

Buttercup:
No way!

Jojo:
Come on!

Bubbles:
Nuh-uh. We’re never using our powers again.

Jojo:
Oh girls, don’t be sad. Your powers are great! You just gotta believe in yourself.

[Jojo looks slyly at the girls; they look anxiously at each other, and then at the lava. Then they dive in as Jojo smiles onward. A few shots show the girls planting the cylindrical device down in the white-hot lava. As they stop, the machine whirrs, opens, and rotates, releasing a long tube back up towards the surface along with the girls, dripping in lava but unaffected (even their clothes). Jojo does a victory dance.]

Jojo:
Yes! Yes! YES!

Blossom:
We did good?

Jojo:
You did very good. Very good indeed. (his eyes shift slantily.)

Buttercup:
Now what do we do?

Jojo:
First we construct the superstructure.

[The girls fly to an icy area, where in soundless fashion over the music, they use their heat beams to unearth a giant meteor. Back at Townsville volcano, the girls melt the meteor into liquid, under the diction of Jojo. Next, we see the girls laying and welding the founding structural beam, made from the meteor, using their eye beams. Next, they fly underwater to unearth a giant submarine. As they lift it, a school of distressed fish exits from the crack in its center As Blossom and Buttercup hold the ship over the half-built laboratory, Bubbles smashes it open at its crack, like a piñata, causing a variety of mechanical objects to drop out. Jojo uses the scraps to create an elaborate system of green power lines throughout the floor and walls. As the girls fly out again, the basic laboratory is finished, complete with large telescope. They girls fly out to the desert, and form a large tornado, and from the resulting sand they use their heat vision and breath to create an elaborate of hollow glass spheres and glass cages worthy of a master glassworker.]

Jojo:
Look! Can’t you see our plan is working? Our work is proceeding as planned! At last, our lives will be better! At last, we will be accepted! At last, our greatest work is complete-- oops.

Blossom:
What’s wrong?

Jojo:
Well, there is one last, teeny tiny, itsy bitsy thing we still need.

[Back at the Utonium house, which the girls have now easily found, they are seen running off with a large beaker labeled Chemical X and back to Jojo’s. He gestures upwards, and the girls place the beaker nozzle-down atop the large collection of hollow glass spheres showcasing the large center contraption. Jojo is jumping joyously, and the same animation sequence repeats itself.]

Jojo:
Yes, Yes, YES!

Blossom:
We did good?

Jojo:
You did very good. Very good indeed

Buttercup:
Now what do we do?

Jojo:
Well, because you’ve done so good, I’ve got a special surprise!

Girls (All):
Yay!

[As the music gains a lively Sesame-Street style kiddy beat, the girls walk exuberantly through the front gates of the Townsville Zoo. They give an oooh as they look at the elephants, an ahh over the seals, and another ooh over the lions. Then, seeing a zebra directional sign, they squeal with delight and zoom off. But, Jojo, still dressed in trench coat and paper bag, quietly carries them off towards the Primate Plaza. The scene shows several chimps hanging around. As the girls look on, Jojo offers to take their picture. The girls smile politely for the camera, but Jojo backs up, waving the girls out of the shot entirely and focusing in on the butt of one chimp. As he snaps, the chimp grabs his rear in surprise and falls to the ground, unnoticed by the still-smiling girls. This monkey-obsession photography continues for many different species. The girls try to look cute for the camera, but Jojo continues to snap the primate wildlife unabated, each time distressing the subject matter. Afterwards, the girls look at a diagram of the evolution of man, reading off the descriptions below each one as they read them.]

Buttercup:
Worthless,

Blossom:
Lame,

Bubbles:
Stupid!

Buttercup:
Okay.

Blossom:
Better,

Bubbles:
Almost,

Girls (All):
Awesome! (giggles)

[Jojo just looks on in quiet disapproval. Glancing sideways he spies the real prize a massive gorilla, in the peak of life. Grabbing his camera and snapping once more, we finally see what is distressing the monkeys so much the snapshots are leaving small beeping electronic trackers in the fur of the simians. Sensing his mission is completed, Jojo begins to leave.]

Jojo:
Come girls, our work is fin-- oh, I mean, time to go.

Girls (All):
Aww… but Jojo!

Blossom:
We haven’t seen the gazelles!

Buttercup:
Or the crocodiles!

Bubbles:
(whimpering) Or the unicorns! Just one unico--

[She trips over a baby rattle. Sensing a baby crying off in the distance, she runs over to a lady, her baby and older child to return the rattle.]

Bubbles:
Excuse me, ma’am, I think you dropped this.

[The woman looks at her angrily, quickly snatches the rattle, and walks away in a huff.]

Woman:
I thought the zoo kept all the animals in cages!

[Bubbles is hunched over in sadness with Blossom consoling her, while Buttercup yells to the lady walking away.]

Buttercup:
Yeah, well, you’re welcome, lady!

Blossom:
Don’t listen, Bubbles.

Jojo:
That’s right Bubbles, do not listen. All of you deafen yourselves to their heartless words. They do not know that it is their saviors they are speaking to. They are unaware that your actions will have helped change their world forever! (embraces them) Because we have helped the town, and made it a better place.

Blossom:
Do you think they’ll be surprised?

Jojo:
Oh yeah.

Buttercup:
You think they’ll still be mad at us for playing tag?

Jojo:
No, they’ll have forgotten all about that.

Bubbles:
Will they love us?

Jojo:
(pausing) Yes.

Girls (All):
Really?

Jojo:
Would I lie to you?

[The girls fly back to the Utonium house at night.]

Blossom:
I’m so excited!

Buttercup:
Yeah, we’ll show them!

Bubbles:
Hey, where’s--

[On cue, the Professor is thrown roughly head first into the house by policemen. He is bound in handcuffs.]

Girls (All):
Professor!

[Buttercup melts the shackles off.]

Professor:
Oh girls, thank goodness you’re okay! I’m so sorry! I’m a terrible, terrible parent! You must hate me for not picking you up from school. But it’s not my fault. It’s this town. They’ve gone crazy. It’s like they’ve never seen kids playing before. I knew your powers would take some getting used to, but jail? Lawsuits? Angry mobs? What’s next?

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