It was a bit later as a group of mismatched people, and a pony, were walking through the streets of Townsville. Why were we walking? Well we had no idea how long it would take to get where we needed to be and I really didn't feel comfortable being carried around while we were flying. It wouldn't take long too long to get places if it was just me they were taking along. The problem was that Fluttershy didn't want to be carried around and she didn't fly very fast. Therefore we decided to go on foot.
We did end up with another problem. Our group of five wasn't exactly the picture of normal. Sure I doubt I would turn many heads, but we had the local superhero team and a canary yellow pegasus walking along the street like it was nothing. Oh who am I trying to kid? The girls were just fine. Fluttershy on the other hand looked like she was having a near panic attack. She was a pony who hated being the center of attention and here she was; an oddity even amongst the abnormal norm. Even I couldn't stand the stares after a while and they weren't even directed at me.
"Alright, enough of this," I said and placed my hand on Fluttershy's head. "We're going invisible."
I matched words to action and turned the both of us invisible to everyone but each other. I had improved with this spell quite a bit. Not only was I capable of turning other things invisible, but I was able to see them while they were still invisible. Well, so long as I was invisible also. It was a big improvement over smacking myself in the face with my invisible hand. I had made other improvements with what I considered my signature spell as well. I still required physical contact to activate it, but now I was capable of sending it from just about any part of my body and not just my hands. I also had increased just how much area I could turn invisible. The last time I tried I was able to turn a small grove of trees invisible. Most interesting of all was that I was able to sustain any invisibility after I separated from my target so long as I wanted it to. It only lasted about twenty five seconds but that was still quite significant. I had gotten pretty damn confident with that spell.
"I'm not very happy that we can't keep an eye on you," Blossom stated.
"Well, I could envelop all three of you with invisibility as well. Or I could just put my hand on your shoulder. Either works for me."
"Ooh, ooh, I want to be invisible!" Bubbles cried out enthusiastically.
I let out a chuckle as I turned and reached for her. I placed my hand on her shoulder and shifted her to invisible.
"Haha! This is so neat!"
She started to wave her hands in front of Buttercup.
"You can't see me!"
"Duh," Buttercup drawled.
"Basic rundown is that I need to keep in contact to maintain the spell. If Bubbles were to hold hands or clasp her shoulder then I can extend it through that connection. That's really all of the pertinent information for this."
As they deliberated, I placed my leg up against Fluttershy's foreleg to keep the connection and pulled Eris out of my pocket. I don't know why but I felt weirdly protective of her. It's possible that it was because Him was still out there. I had been pulling her out of my pocket, checking things out, and putting her right back in after getting her back from Fluttershy and explaining why I was here again to the girls. Well, I explained after Buttercup got back from handing Mojo over to the local prison (I assume anyway since I never saw where she went).
I needed to keep Eris safe and there was a better alternative for that walking along with me.
"Since we're traveling on the sidewalks, I don't think that's a good idea. We'd be running into people the whole way."
"Yeah I guess that's true," I conceded, "but I'm still going to keep Fluttershy and myself invisible to prevent the crowd from staring at us. Neither of us are great with crowds."
I looked down at Fluttershy who gave me a small smile before looking away.
"Here you go Blossom," I said as I flipped my coin in the air to her. She barely had time to react, but then again due to honed reflexes she managed to grab it out of the air. "I need you to guide us for a while."
"Why do you need me to? Can't you still do it?"
"I need to keep up contact for the spell to work and I'm going to have my other hand on Bubbles so you know I'm still here."
"Can I stay invisible?" she asked.
"I... Don't know about that," I responded.
"Pleeeeease?"
"Aauugh. I do not have any defense against cute girls!"
"Thanks, but I already have a boyfriend," she said in a way that just seemed too innocent for words.
"Yeah, well, I respect the bro code even if I know I didn't have a chance anyway."
"Aww, you shouldn't think like that."
Is she grabbing my ar- Oh shit she's pressing them up and I have no defense I just said this what the hell do I do?
It wasn't the Rainbow Dash situation. Not by a mile. She had basically wrapped her arms around my left arm and pressed herself up to me in a way where my arm was now shoved in between her breasts. And yes, she was well-endowed if you had to know. If she didn't have super strength they would probably be murder on her back. Like, almost Tsunade from Naruto big.
...What was I saying? Oh right, I remember. I was stuck in that situation since I had no experience with close female contact. I mean look at my track recod. Lyra in human form gave me a kiss and I began to ponder the merits of letting her have her way with me. Rainbow Dash straddled me in the car and again I nearly went the whole way with someone who wasn't mentally right at the time. Well, this wasn't any better so I just acted.
"SureifyousaysoBubbles!" I blurted out faster than the Micro Machines Man. Don't know who that is? Well, for comparison he can talk fast than Pinkie Pie can. About 'end of a radio commercial' fast I believe and we'll end it right there.
They all giggled at my little outburst. As an outside observer I would have probably laughed at that too. I wish that I could be the suave ladies man, but I do not have what it takes for that to happen. If I had less moral fortitude I'd do what I did to Rainbow Dash and not care about the consequences from doing it. I'm not going to though because even if it is kind of my fetish, and I kind of hate admitting that, in real life it's wrong.
"Bubbles are you teasing him?" Blossom asked.
"Only a little," she admitted.
"What would Mac say if he found out?" Buttercup teased.
"As long as he knows it's just teasing and nothing more then he should be okay with it."
Bubbles let go of my arm and as she turned visible again I slowly started to calm down. I really needed to get some exposure to that kind of thing. Still, after regaining some composure I placed my hand back on Fluttershy's head and also on Bubbles' shoulder.
"You sure you want to have Bubbles guide you after that?" Buttercup ribbed.
"Now girls, we need to get moving," Blossom cut in. "You heard his explanation. We don't want anything bad to happen to anyone right?"
The comment seemed to sober up the mood some as her sisters nodded. I scoffed after we started off again.
"Honestly I rather like the light hearted mood. Being depressed all the time sucks. So while I am fine with Bubbles leading me, I am still flattered none the less at the offer to let me feel you up."
Buttercup's face went red as she sputtered over my comment.
"Tha-that's not what I meant!" she rattled off in defense.
"Oh? Bubbles said in a saccharine tone. "I remember you telling me before that you liked older guys."
Oh the look of horror on Buttercup's face. Bubbles' statement did have the effect of making me look her over them again. All three of them were impressively built specimens and were all extremely attractive. Like I said before, Bubbles' chest was quite oversized; especially considering her body type. Buttercup, on the other hand, was smaller than both her sisters in that department, but was still hovering between a b- and a c-cup so it wasn't like she would be ashamed at lacking anything.
"I do not want to have a talk about guys in front of a guy!!!" she yelled which also got the attention of the people still on the sidewalks.
"Powerpuff business people. Move along," Blossom told them decisively.
That must have been something pretty common because on cue everyone resumed what they were doing like nothing had happened.
"We need to keep moving," Blossom stated. "Every time we start talking we either slow down or stop."
"But this is fun," Bubbles countered. "We don't get to talk to many boys like this since we grew up. Other than your boyfriend and mine we barely talk to any of them."
"They're probably intimidated by you."
"They are," Blossom stated bluntly. "Bubbles is convinced that there's some other reason."
"Of course there is! We were friends once before so why shouldn't we be now?"
"To be blunt, it's hormones," I stated for her. "Both guys and girls in general start thinking differently once they have more hormones circulating through their body. It can have lots of effects on the body and the mind. Egh, now I feel like I'm giving you 'the talk'."
"Yeah, the Professor tried to give us the talk once," Blossom said.
"Didn't go well I take it?"
"No it didn't."
"Ironically it was Princess Morebucks who ended up telling us about it," Buttercup added. "It had more bragging than necessary, but she still gave us all the important parts we needed to hear."
"I see. Is she still a snooty bitch?"
"Yep."
"Buttercup! That's not a nice thing to say," Blossom admonished.
"It's still the truth. Telling him any different would just be a lie."
"I know, but still you didn't have to be so callously blunt about it."
"She's like that to us all the time!"
"We still shouldn't stoop to her level!"
"Why not? Because we're superheroes?"
"Exactly!"
"You know, maybe we should get walking," I stated trying to diffuse the scene before it got out of hand.
"Stay out of this!" they chorused.
"*sigh* Plan B it is."
A snap of my fingers later and two large buckets of ice water were dumped on their heads. The two began sputtering as they went to wiping off the excess water they were drenched in. Yeah, their clothes were see-through, but nothing indecent. It didn't last though as they both did a flaring aura trick that dried themselves off quickly. It was pretty cool looking too. Still, the water did it's trick as they weren't arguing with each other. Instead, they were simply glaring at me.
That was when things got a little... complicated. I didn't actually do anything. However, Eris started to glow in Blossom's hand. We all cast our gaze on her as a beam of light shot out and hit Blossom and Buttercup. Both of them were covered in light that corresponded with their usual color and when it died off... well, okay they had been switched into bikinis of matching color schemes. Now, looking back on that, I think that it was then that I should have realized that Eris was possibly reading my thoughts and actions and making moves on her own to placate to those; sort of like that movie called 'Click'. At the time, I just thought it had gone completely off on its own tangent and reacted to the scene that was unfolding.
Too bad I didn't have time to voice my opinion on any of this as they let off a scream and proceeded to punch me in the face. This ended just about as well as you'd think it would. Two people with super strength that I don't really have a clear estimate of punched me in the face in shock. They've picked up buildings casually before so I know it's pretty high tier. I may have durability on my side, but I did not have that kind of durability. As such, I only had a moment to recognize the pain before I was rendered unconscious.
Honestly? I could have died from that. Super strength is no joke. I remember hearing from someone that Spiderman once accidentally killed a villain by punching them too hard. I never looked into it, but honestly it surprised me. The motto that he lived by was 'with great power comes great responsibility' and knowing that even with that motto that he accidentally killed somebody really struck that home. Now, I know that they were a super villain so if he needed to punch that hard in the first place then he was throwing some serious weight into those punches. That would mean that his opponent probably had their own impressive durability. The parallels I'm drawing here are that even with good durability, enough force can bypass that and kill a person unless you hold back enough. Superman even said something similar to that. The point is that even though I had some enhanced durability due to a spell, when you get punched in the face by someone who has super strength and isn't reigning it in due to the fact that you surprised them enough to give you a pervert pulverizing punch then chances are unless you have zany cartoon recovery skills you are going to be in a world where things are not going to be good for you.
In retrospect, I think I was glad that I woke up after that had happened to me. Considering the fact that those punches could've killed me, I lend more weight to that assertion. The beeping of a heart monitor at least let me know that I was getting medical attention for what happened to me. I didn't open my eyes for a bit since I was trying to remember what went on. It took a few moments, maybe a minute, for me to recollect the predicament that led me here. I let out a sigh at the inane sequence of events and wondered how the hell I even managed to survive those blows.
"Good. It seems you are awake," a nasally voice spoke to me.
I opened my eyes and found a person hovering over me. It was a red haired man with thick glasses and freckles wearing a lab coat. He was too close for me to see any other features, but what I saw and heard had me thinking about how familiar they were.
"You must excuse my poor manners. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Dexter, Boy Genius."
Oh, yeah. I forgot. This was Powerpuff Girls PSHAWW! and this was Dexter, Blossom's boyfriend. Silly me. Oh, hi unconsciousness I thought we were done?