Townsville…
There is the city skyline during the day.
"The city of Townsville…" The narrator said.
A giant slug is moving around the city with people screaming and running about in a panic.
"...is in need of some serious pet control!" The narrator said, while Buttercup is in flight. "And here she comes now!"
Buttercup dives on the slug...her hand glowing green as if she is about to fire a laser beam from it, and plunges deep into its body. A helicopter flies by. Buttercup is upside down and unconscious in the transparent gelatin. She opens her eyes and gathers herself for another assault. She breaks loose. Buttercup begins pounding on the slug, splattering pink goo everywhere, then grabs it by the tail and slams it back and forth against the ground.
"Um, Buttercup." Jared said, as a voice over, amplified.
Buttercup pays no mind, instead, she hacks her way down through the slug.
"Now, Buttercup…" The Professor said, as a voice over, amplified. "Ok, stop." Buttercup gets to the ground. "Buttercup... BUTTERCUP!"
"Buttercup!" Jared said, as a voice over, amplified. "Stop!"
She finally stops swinging and puts a look of surprise on her face as she finally reacts to the Professor and Jared calling her. Around her, the scene dissolves to an empty white chamber with grid lines on the walls and floor.
The Professor and Jared are addressing her through a microphone and watching at a window. In front of him is a control panel.
(Jared's POV)
Simulation chamber…
The entire setup is a fighting simulator in the girls' house, and Buttercup had just finished her training in it when the Professor and Jared got her to cease attacking the slug before turning off the simulation and returning the room to normal.
"Um, I think you got him, honey." The Professor said, happily.
"Nice work, Buttercup." I said, as the Professor, Blossom, Bubbles, and I are behind Buttercup, silhouetted in the window, which has a door next to it. "You did great. Come over here."
"Jared's right." The Professor said, over the intercom. "Come back in now."
Buttercup leaves the chamber.
Control room…
"How was that?" Buttercup asked.
The Professor flips her a thumbs-up without looking away from the panel as I gave Buttercup a high five.
"Well, I thought you went a little too far, like when…" Blossom said, sadly.
"Man, Buttercup! You are hard-core!" Bubbles said, and I looked between her and Buttercup. "There was this part where you were stuck inside the slug, and it was all gross and stuff, and then, SPLAT! POW! BAM! You were hitting it, and then you were slamming, and on the ground, the punching and the kicking, and it was all dead and stuff and…"
Through all of this, Buttercup mutters acknowledgment in a bored, irritated tone. Bubbles is cut off by the Professor.
"Bubbles?" The Professor asked.
"Yeah?" Bubbles asked.
"It's your…" The Professor said, while we hear her dash off. "...turn."
Over the Professor's shoulder, we see the chamber through the window.
Bubbles is inside the chamber, "Okay! I'm ready!"
"Awww, ain't she cute?" The Professor asked.
"She's adorable." I said, while the Professor punches several buttons on the control panel.
"Professor, don't forget to…" Blossom said, frowning.
Blossom and Buttercup are on either side of the Professor and I who are by the panel.
"Don't worry, Blossom. I know." The Professor said, reaching to a knob on the panel marked DANGER LEVEL and adjusts it. A readout next to it decreases from its initial value of 9. "Danger level nine is way too much for our little Bubbles."
"Let's put it at setting 2. I don't want our little Bubbles to get hurt." I said, as the Professor stops at setting 2. "There we go."
(Open POV)
Chamber…
Bubbles is facing the window.
"Ready?" The Professor asked, over the intercom, looking at Bubbles. "Here you go!"
Around Bubbles, the chamber dissolves to an ordinary-looking room. She looks around and finds that this is in fact what it is - completely empty except for a door with a welcome mat in front of it. The door creaks open, throwing a shaft of light into the room. A boxy shadow advances into view, and Bubbles snarls and tenses for a fight. The shadow's owner is a 1950s sci-fi robot with arms outstretched.
"Boo! I'm gonna get you! Boo! I'm gonna get you! Boo! I'm gonna get you! Boo! I'm gonna get you!" The robot yelled, moving towards Bubbles, the blonde looked at it with anger and irritation - it is smaller than she is.
"Professor! Jared!" Bubbles said, flying to the window, now a mirror. "You turned it down again! I'm just as tough as Blossom and Buttercup! I can handle the rough stuff too!"
On the next line; the robot's antennae begin to glow and hum.
"Come on, you guys. Turn it up just this once. I'll show you!" Bubbles said, looking at the window.
The shriek on the end of this line is triggered by the laser beam from behind, which catches her off guard. The robot has let her have it. Around Bubbles, the scene dissolves back to the chamber and the mirror becomes a window again. Bubbles appears char-broiled.
"You see, Bubbles, you're not ready for the higher levels yet." The Professor said, over the intercom.
"It's okay, Bubbles. There's no need to worry." Jared said, over the intercom, as Bubbles hangs her head. "Cheer up a bit. Someday, you'll be able to handle the fights Blossom and Buttercup and do."
"It's not fair." Bubbles said, floating away, and she slammed the door.
"She's so cute when she's all pouty like that." The Professor said, over the intercom.
"She really is. That's why we love her so much." Jared said, over the intercom.
Outside the Utonium Residence…
It is now nighttime.
Girls' bedroom…
The Professor is tucking the girls in, "Now I want you girls to go right to sleep. You've had a hard day of training, and you need your rest. Good night."
The Professor moved away and flicked the light switch. The room goes dark.
Blossom looked back and forth between the Professor, at the door, and the bed, "Professor?"
"Yes?" The Professor asked.
"Don't forget to leave the hall light on for Bubbles." Blossom said, closing her eyes, and Bubbles glares at her.
"Uh, that's okay, Professor. I'm not afraid of the dark anymore." Bubbles said, happily.
"Oh, Bubbles, you are so precious, acting all brave." The Professor said, laughing.
Bubbles looks at her sisters out of one eye.
"Yeah. Everyone knows you're the scarediest." Buttercup said, smirking.
"Am not!" Bubbles said, angrily.
"All right now. Good night, girls." The Professor said, leaving the room, pulling the door not quite all the way shut.
Across the bed, Buttercup and Blossom - they are both asleep - and with Bubbles, a ray of light from the hall is falling on her. She is still wide awake and very angry.
"It's not fair! I'm just as tough and strong and mean as Buttercup and Blossom, but they just don't believe me. They all treat me like a baby. I'll show them. I'll prove that I can be....hardcore!" Bubbles said, thinking.
Control room…
Bubbles' silhouette is in the doorway, her hand on the light switch. Her shadow falls over the control panel and stops at the DANGER LEVEL knob. She reaches into view and begins to turn it, increasing the setting. At level 9, it begins to creak and turn more slowly, as if jamming from the strain with being turned so high, until the readout shows 10. Extreme close-up of the value as it goes up once more, finally stopping at 11.
Chamber…
Bubbles facing the window.
"Mission, begin!" Bubbles yelled.
Around Bubbles, the Townsville skyline appears, with flames everywhere. She is hit by an unseen assailant and knocked into a wall. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself facing five adversaries at once: a pterodactyl, an octopus, a creature with one horn and arms ending in pincers, a scaly giant with a single eye in its chest, and a large pink monster with bug eyes and octopus tentacles. Bubbles zigzags near the ground, avoiding fists, feet, and claws, and flies straight toward the mouth of this last beast. She wedges herself in its teeth and tries to hold the mouth open, and everyone else's words echo in her head.
"Ain't she cute?" The Professor asked, as a memory.
"She's adorable." Jared said, as a memory.
"Everyone knows you're the scarediest." Buttercup said, as a memory.
"Not ready for the higher levels…" The Professor said, as a memory.
"It's okay, Bubbles. There's no need to worry. Cheer up a bit. Someday, you'll be able to handle the fights Blossom and Buttercup and do." Jared said, as a memory.
"Leave the hall light on." Blossom said, as a memory.
The monster's jaws snap shut, and it smiles. Its contentment is broken when she smashes her way out through its teeth and does a screaming U-turn to attack it. She dispatches it in short order, finally knocking it back into the skyline behind her; a mushroom cloud rises when it lands. A laser blast from nearby. catches her by surprise and makes her scream in pain; pan and pull back to show the other four monsters. The pterodactyl is the one that fired the shot, and it screeches in triumph. Bubbles has her back to the pterodactyl. She turns around; there is a drop of blood at the corner of her mouth. Bubbles wipes the blood away and screams in fury.
Bubbles now goes on the attack against all four monsters at once, showing no mercy whatsoever. She tears a spike from the pterodactyl's head and throws it as a spear, impaling the creature through the mouth, possibly in payback for the cheap shot it pulled on her while she was distracted with dispatching the first monster that tried to eat her. Eyes and appendages are torn loose or knocked off in rapid succession. The battle ends with her flying toward the monsters at ground level and the monsters falling in a row behind her, battered, bruised, bloody, and beaten. She lands, panting hard. The scene dissolves to the chamber, the simulation over since she emerged victorious.
"WHO ELSE WANTS SOME!" Blossom yelled.
Exterior of Pokey Oaks Kindergarten…
At the playground, the kids are having recess, and several are sitting in a circle on the grass. The girls are part of this group.
"Let's play duck-duck-goose. I'll be it." Blossom said, beginning to fly around the circle. She tapped a black boy. "Duck…" She tapped Buttercup. "Duck…" Blossom tapped a redheaded boy. "Duck…" She tapped Bubbles. "Goose!" She looked over the group. "Can't catch me!"
Blossom flies across the playground, with Bubbles in hot pursuit.
"What's the matter? Am I too fast for cute little Bubbles?" Blossom asked, laughing.
Angered by that remark, Bubbles puts on an extra burst of speed and catches Blossom, driving her face into the ground.
"Ha! I got you! You're out! Done! Finished! You were beaten down, sister, by CUTE! LITTLE! BUBBLES!" Bubbles cheered.
"Sheesh, relax, it's just a game." Blossom said, annoyed.
The hotline in the classroom goes off, catching the attention of Blossom and Bubbles.
"The hotline!" Bubbles said, worried.
Pokey Oaks Kindergarten…
Bubbles rushes in to pick the hotline phone up and yells into it, "WHAT DO YOU WANT, MAYOR?!"
Mayor's car / Pokey Oaks Kindergarten…
The Mayor and Ms. Bellum are in the back seat of a car. He has a cell phone.
"Oh! Uh...uh…" The mayor said, sadly.
"SPIT IT OUT!" Bubbles said, angrily.
"Oh, well, uh, yes, I…" The mayor said, shaking.
The official limousine is behind a long line of other cars out on the street.
"Well, I'm stuck in the middle of this huge traffic jam, and I'm gonna be late to…" The mayor said, stammering.
"I'M ON IT!" Bubbles said, slamming the receiver down hard enough to break it in half and take off.
Blossom and Buttercup fly into view and inspect the smashed phone with some anxiety at how ferocious Bubbles is acting now.
Townsville…
Bubbles is in flight looking down at the traffic jam. The car at the head of it is being driven by the Talking Dog, apparently the one responsible for the back-up.
"Well, I may be able to talk, but I sure as I can't drive." The talking dog said.
Car…
Bubbles rip a hole in the roof.
"Oh, hi, Bubbles. How are youuuuu?!" The talking dog exclaimed.
Townsville…
Bubbles yanks the talking dog out and begins to beat him in midair.
"BAD DOG! BAD DOG! BAD DOG!" Bubbles said, knocking the talking dog to the pavement in a battered and bruised mess.
As Bubbles looms over the talking dog, he cowers in fear at how Bubbles has given him such a thrashing for simply causing the Mayor to be late to an appointment because of his inability to drive.
"No, Bubbles! Have mercy!" The talking dog said, terrified.
"Mercy is for the weak!" Bubbles said, angrily.
Blossom and Buttercup are in flight.
"Bubbles!" Blossom said, terrified.
Blossom and Buttercup pull up behind Bubbles.
"Have you lost your mind?!" Buttercup exclaimed.
"This isn't the Bubbles we know!" Blossom said, worried.
"THE BUBBLES YOU KNOW IS GONE! I'M HARDCORE NOW!" Bubbles yelled.
"But, um, you're going overboard." Buttercup said, sadly.
"That's not the Powerpuff way." Blossom said, frowning.
"Forget the Powerpuff way! I'm doing it my way. I can handle Townsville myself!" Bubbles said, looking between Blossom and Buttercup.
"What?!" Blossom and Buttercup exclaimed, at the same time.
"But we're a team!" Buttercup said, excitedly.
"We look out for each other." Blossom said, happily.
"I don't mean to burst your bubble, girls, but from now on…" Bubbles said, flying past Blossom and Buttercup. "...I fly solo!"
Bubbles is flying away with her sisters looking after her in shock.
"Whoa! Sister's doin' it for herself! Let's hope she knows what she's doing." The narrator said, letting out a sigh.
At a sidewalk that runs along a grassy area, a sign that reads 'Please Keep Off the Grass' is visible. A man steps towards descending and crushing a couple of blades. He looks down at his feet with alarm, before hearing a familiar sound, and Bubbles zooms in on him. A single blow turns his face to a pulp.
A second man is eating a small package of food. When he finishes, he tosses the wrapper over his shoulder. The wrapper falls in slow motion; Bubbles fly in and land a few punches. The man hits the ground before the wrapper does, and she flies away.
There is a sign that reads 'No Parking Ever'; a car is parked next to it, with a woman behind the wheel. Bubbles picks the car up and throws it away., and a crash is heard.
A flash of lightning fills the sky; when it subsides, it is near a high-rise. The roof amid more lightning. Bubbles is there, seen in shadow lit by the full moon from behind with an expression of grim resolve. Behind her, the shadow of Mojo Jojo moves with his arms reaching out. The lightning is cracking overhead, she whirls to face him with an angered look of surprise on her face. Another flash of lightning, followed by a quick flash of his face with a malicious grin on it as he reaches forward; another flash, and both are gone. Mojo manages to grab her before she can retaliate.
Blossom and Buttercup are flying through the city.
"Bubbles!" Blossom said, angrily.
"Bubbles!" Buttercup yelled.
"Bubbles!" Blossom said, looking at Buttercup. "Where could she be?"
"Let's keep looking."
"Oh, I hope she's okay."
Mojo's lair…
There is another lightning strike. When it clears, Bubbles has her arms and legs clamped down. She struggles against the restraints as a large weapon is pointed directly at her.
"Now that I have you, my sweet little Bubbles…" Mojo said, at the controls. "...nothing can stop my plan to take over the world!"
"What plan?!" Bubbles exclaimed.
"I'll tell you! I plan to zap you with my laser, causing you to cry out…" Mojo said, talking in baby talk. "…just wike a wittle baby…" He went to his regular voice. "...which in turn will cause your sisters to come flying to your rescue, for which I am well prepared, as you can see." He points over his shoulder to the door of the lair. The floor there is covered with glue, and a cannon points at the door. "And with you three do-gooders out of the way, no one will be able to stop me!"
"That's the dumbest plan I've ever heard! AND I'M NOT A BABY!" Bubbles said, looking at the control panel; a display reads 2.
"Well, we'll see about that!" Mojo said, pressing a button, activating the laser.
The laser fires a green blast which hits Bubbles, who clenches in the restraints, trying not to cry from the blast as she resists in pain.
"I'm not...gonna cry, you…" Bubbles said, strained. "DUMB DOO DOO BRAIN!"
Mojo is offended.
"'Doo-doo-brain'? That's it! I've had it with your sassy mouth! I didn't want to do this!" Mojo said, looking at the knob, he looked down to adjust it. "...Well, actually, I did."
The reading goes up from 2 to 11, and the laser kicks into high gear. Bubbles struggles, trying to keep herself from screaming as she lets out a loud, straining growl. Mojo watches excitedly; white light strobes in his face.
"Yes! Yes!..." Mojo said, while Bubbles still strains. "That's it!"
A few more strains, and Bubbles finally screams, but in fury before crumbling the restraints and breaks free, then starts laying into him, doing the work of her sisters as well as her own. When she finishes, Mojo lands on the ground, a battered wreck and barely conscious. His cape settles over his body as Blossom and Buttercup smash their way in through the ceiling.
"Bubbles!" Blossom and Buttercup said, at the same time.
"WHAT?!" Bubbles exclaimed.
"We heard you scre…" Blossom said, as surprise registers on her and Buttercup's faces.
"Whoa!" Blossom and Buttercup said, seeing Mojo crumpled on the floor at the other end of the room.
"Wow, Bubbles! I can't believe you defeated Mojo all by yourself!" Blossom said, and Buttercup flew across the room. "You really whooped him!"
"And look!" Buttercup said, looking at the control panel; Blossom joins her. "She took the laser all the way to eleven! "
"Whoa!" Blossom said, looking at the readout.
Blossom and Buttercup fly up behind Bubbles, who has her arms crossed and a fierce look still on her face, still upset that they think she's a little baby and not hardcore like she stated earlier.
"Man, Bubbles, we really underestimated you." Blossom said, sadly.
"And you know what?" Buttercup asked.
"WHAT?!" Bubbles exclaimed.
"You're hardcore!" Blossom and Buttercup said, at the same time.
"Really?" Bubbles asked, turning around, softening, before giggling. "Aw, shucks." She is flying up to her sisters. "And girls, I'm sorry for running off."
Mojo, who has just come to, having fully recovered from his injuries.
"Mojo would never have gotten me if I had you two to look out for me." Bubbles said, frowning.
Mojo pulls a blaster from under his cape and points it into the air during this line. The girls; reach one hand apiece, piling them up as if about to break a football huddle.
"Team?" Blossom asked, looking between Bubbles and Buttercup.
"Team!" Buttercup said, excitedly.
"Team!" Bubbles cheered.
The girls are hit by a beam - Mojo's blaster - and yell in pain. When its over, Blossom and Buttercup smile towards Bubbles as smoke rises from Bubbles' pigtails as she turns to face Mojo, the 'hardcore' look returning to her face. Mojo's eyes dart nervously about and finally turning sadly down to the floor, realizing he's screwed now and about to be given another pummeling. He is plowed off his feet and subjected to another bout of pummeling by Bubbles for his little cheap shot at her and her sisters.
"Why, you...! How dare you zap me and my sisters? Take this! And that! And this! And this! And that!" Bubbles said, angrily.
The standard end shot comes up.
"Ha, ha, ha! Oh, Bubbles, you're so cute when you're all tough like that." The narrator said, laughing again. "So once again, the day is saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Girls!"