Quatre, Trowa, Catherine, Relena, Hilde, Duo, Heero and Wufei woke up simultaneously in a bright, white, sterile looking room. They groaned as one and looked around for the fic author they KNEW had to be lurking around somewhere.

“Hi, Kiddies!” A winged girl appeared, landing before them.

Heero and Duo worked together to restrain Wufei before he lunged too far forward and got himself into trouble. The rest of the assembled cast glowered accordingly in suspicious caution. The Chieftain absently flipped her leathery wings onto her back, settling happily in a chair that had materialized, and idly lashed her dragon tail back and forth.

Giving them all a toothy smile, she pulled a clipboard and notepad from DragonSpace- and a set of spectacles, to add to the touch- before speaking again.

“First, I must explain carefully that I do not own any of the Gundam Wing characters, or those of Powerpuff Girls, for that matter.” The cast silently thanked whatever gods they believed in.

“And the majority of the script is direct quoting from the Powerpuff girls, so I want to make sure nobody goes: ‘Plagiarism’. I openly admit it. Nyah nyah. Second, I would like to list the cast off. Playing the part of Blossom will be Catherine Bloom, knife-throwing star of the circus. Any objections?” Catherine shook her head, looking relieved. So far, so good.

“Playing Bubbles is Relena PeaceCraft, Buttercup is Hilde Shbeicker.” She paused, giving a pointed look to the mentioned girls, who shook their heads. This almost seemed too good.

“Playing the break-dancer in scene thirty four, Duo Maxwell. Playing the police officers in scene thirty five, Heero Yuy and Chang Wufei.” Quatre and Trowa exchanged worried glances, realizing that they were the only two left.

“Any objections?” Lena asked again, baring a shiny, sharp white smile. Wufei, Duo and Heero gulped and shook their heads.

“Playing both Rainbow the Clown and Mr. Mime, Trowa Barton…I mean, Nanashi…I mean, Triton Bloom…sheesh.” Trowa’s eyes narrowed and he held out his hand. Lena smiled, offering him the *very* thick script. As the boy flipped through it, his eyes widened considerably.

“Well?” The girl demanded archly. Trowa shook his head.

“I protest OOC. I’m a clown, yes, but…” Sneering, the girl repeated his words and then pretended to be in deep concentration.

“Yes, but…hmm. Well, I guess I could switch the casting around, and make Catherine the clown, if I have to…but that would mean I’d need a new Blossom…” Trowa blinked and swallowed as the draconian girl gave him an evil, take-it-or-leave-it look.

“You wouldn’t,” He began, trying to protest. Lena only nodded. With a heavy sigh, he nodded, conceding.

“Good! And Quatre, you’re the narrator.”

“Okay,” Quatre replied, shrugging. “That’s fine, I guess.”

“Wonderful! Oh, and girls? You’re Chibi in the story- let me take care of that right now…” Lena waved a hand and the three girls poofed into Chibi form. “Let the story- BEGIN!”

The Dragon Chieftain launched herself from her chair, soaring through the walls like an X-Woman, and the white brightened until the picture faded in on…

‘The City…of Townsville!’ Quatre’s voice said, full of false cheer. ‘And it looks like the citizens are celebrating…’

Picture wheels to a park, descends suddenly (we hear the sounds of someone straining not to barf) and a birthday party comes into view. A group of youngsters watches with vague interest as a clown in rainbow colors juggles and sings at the same time.

Trowa continues to juggle, ignoring the authoress’ whims.

For a moment, she sends him to room 201. (Hah! 1984 reference…love that book!) Rainbow the Clown reappears and sings in a monotone- that is, the same note over and over again- to the children.

“La la la la la la happy happy happy happy birthday Jim.” Trowa motions to the child of honor, who blushes slightly and smiles.

“I’m Rainbow- the colorful clown. You can keep on looking; you’ll never see a frown. Look at my colors- don’t they make you smile? Listen to my singing- it could last for quite a while. All my stripes and spots are the brand new style. It’s your birthday, it’s your birthday, it’s your birthday- Jim.” Again, Jim smiles, and Trowa (almost happily) takes his hand, making a moue of disappointment.

“Today, we’ve had our fun. And my time, is almost done.” Trowa wants to wipe his brow in a comic gesture of relief, but Lena denies his will. “So goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye!” Taking a deep breath, Trowa allows himself to be coerced into a cute ‘I’ll Miss You’ expression/pose. “Go~o~o~o~oooooooooood-“

A large truck comes wheeling by and screeches to a halt, tipping over in the process and landing on its side. We see the label, and it reads: ZERO BLEACH. The truck has just barely missed hitting Trowa; he turns back to the kids.

“Now, that was clo~ose!” The giant container of bleach explodes open, completely drenching Rainbow. The driver of the truck crawls out- he appears to be Treize- and starts asking Trowa questions.

“Are you all right? I’m sorry about that-“ Trowa sees Treize’s bright shiny Oz costume and recoils a moment, then has an e~vil idea. (He’s all black and white now, you know) and grabs Treize by the shoulders. The color drains from him and he becomes still, silent.

A young child comes over from the party grounds and tugs on the bottom of Trowa’s shirt.

“Hey Rainbow, are you okay cause that was crazy and it looked scary and-“ Trowa taps the red balloon that the child is holding, and again, the color and sound drain from the speaker. Trowa glances first to one hand, then the other, and stomps on the ground, sending out a wave of gray.

‘Oh my…It appears that Rainbow the Clown has become…Mr. Mime!’ Quatre’s voice says. (Gray is spreading everywhere; evil clown music is on in the background.)

Zoom in on a yellow school bus; we hear Relena singing in an off-tune way. We see the three girls sitting on the bus next to each other; they are dressed in alternately pink, blue, and green dresses with cute black buckle shoes. Chibi Catherine Blossom’s hair is held back in a barrette, Chibi Relena Bubble’s hair is in two cute little pigtails and Chibi Hilde Buttercup’s hair is- unaltered. They look exceptionally cute, even for Chibis.

“La…la, la…La, la…first the pink and then some blue and then the gre~en and then a dash of blue…coloring, coloring, look at all the colors! Coloring, coloring, I love to do…”

Chibi Relena Bubbles is sitting on a bus seat and alternately using the crayons she wants on a piece of paper. Chibi Catherine Blossom looks slightly interested, and is watching her ‘sister’ color. Chibi Hilde Buttercup looks bored and is pouting in that cute Chibi way.

“Look!” Chibi Relena Bubbles cries. “I drew us!” Chibi Catherine Blossom nods, smiling. Chibi Hilde Buttercup glowers some more, and the calls to the front of the bus.

“Bus driver? Are we there yet?” The bus driver grins in the mirror at her.

“Just one more stop, Buttercup, and it’s education for a---aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!” The bus tries to swerve, screeching madly, to avoid a little old lady in her little red car. The bus driver waits for a collision, eyes squeezed shut, and finally blinks first one, then the other open in confusion. We hear a whooshing sound, and finally realize that Chibi Hilde Buttercup and Chibi Relena Bubbles have lifted the bus into the air, and that Chibi Catherine Blossom has lifted the little old lady in her car.

Everyone cheers.

‘Good job, girls! Congratulate yourselves- you deserve it!’ Quatre’s voice rings out again. Chibi Catherine Blossom exchanges hugs with Chibi Hilde Buttercup and Chibi Relena Bubbles. Chibi Relena Bubbles opens her eyes and- (dramatic music) –notices that there is no color. (Which is why the car thing happened in the first place!)

“What happened to all the colo~or?” Chibi Relena Bubbles cries. “This door should be green, this flower should be yellow, these bricks should be red, WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?” As she speaks, she colors the door, flower, and bricks with her crayons.

“Hm. This is very peculiar,” Chibi Catherine Blossom mused.

“Chibi Hilde Buttercup? What do you think?” After sweat dropping at the mouthful of her name, the green-clad girl rolled her eyes.

“What- ever.” Chibi Relena Bubbles flew over, glaring.

“What. Do you mean. Whatever?” Her expression softened a bit, to one of worry instead of ire. “You can’t just live in a world without color! Mother Nature has big, big plans with color! You just can’t just take it away! Not to mention all the safety reasons…” A man pulls up in his car, parking next to- gasp – a fire hydrant. Chibi Relena Bubbles lifts his car up.

“Stop! You can’t park next to a fire hydrant!” As she tosses his car away, we hear his voice trailing after him (he sounds remarkably like Zechs) ‘I didn’t kno~o~ow!’ Furious, she scratches some of her red crayon onto the hydrant. Seeing that the others are just staring at her in confusion, she turns on them.

“Don’t just stand there! Start COLORING!” With that, she flies away.

Chibi Hilde Buttercup watches her go, looking puzzled.

“Bubbles has gone cuckoo,” She declares. Chibi Catherine Blossom nods her head in agreement.

“She’s right, though…Spread out and search for clues!”

…

Chibi Relena Bubbles comes up to a signpost that marls the crossing of Green St. and orange Ave.

“This should be green! And this should be orange!” Of course, she colors accordingly.

…

“Yo, Blossom!” Chibi Hilde Buttercup calls. The redhead comes over to where she is. “Check this out!”

“Good work, Buttercup! These footprints will no doubt lead us to the person responsible for this whole mess!” Camera turns down to show a set of gray footprints moving off down the sidewalk.

“C’mon.” Blossom and Buttercup take off down the path, and Bubbles comes up to the mailbox on the edge of where the drainage of color is.

“And this should be blue!” She cries, coloring it.

Pan/Zoom to a woman (who looks remarkably like Noin) trying to scream and failing as Mr. Mime drains her color and sound. Then was see a construction worker (why…is that- Howard?) And Mr. Mime skips by, draining him too. He comes upon a cat and dog preparing to fight and touches both of them, actually smiling in enjoyment of what he is doing. The discordant music continues in the background.

Mr. Mime ceases the noise of a baby crying and her mother, Sally-Po. A group of break dancers backs away to reveal their crowning glory dancer, Duo (cheers rise up in the audience, Lena sprays Fire extinguisher dust all over them) who does a few tricks before Mr. Mime jumps into the scene, draining them as well. Duo doesn’t look too pleased, but once they’ve been drained, the people of Townsville can’t move. He moves on to drain a move ad, a fruit stand, and a hippie Mystery Machine type van, before a voice interrupts him.

“Stop where you are.” Raising his hands, and turning, Mr. Mime sees none other than- Wufei and Heero. In uniform. (Appreciative oo’s and aa’s from the Audience. Lena allows it.) Both are wielding guns, though Wufei doesn’t look too pleased about it. Mr. Mime waits for Wufei to finish speaking, but it’s Heero who does them in.

“Put your hands on the ground,” He glares a patented DeathGlare. Smirking (almost) Trowa slams his hands on the ground. Immediately, Wufei and Heero are frozen, silent, and gray.

‘Color me troubled,’ Quatre’s worried voice says. ‘Townsville is black and white!’ Chibi Hilde Buttercup and Chibi Catherine Blossom fly down for a landing, and gasp at the scenes before them.

As they survey the damage, Blossom murmurs, “This is disturbing.” Chibi Hilde Buttercup turns and points.

“Blossom, look!” A nest of blue birds is making a racket, and the girls watch as Rainbow stomps the ground, sending a wave of gray up to silence the birds.

“So!” Blossom’s voice rings out. Mr. Mime turns to regard the duo with puzzlement. “You like things to be black and white, huh?” She demands. Chibi Hilde Buttercup steps forward.

“Well how would you like to be black and blue?” Snarling silently, Mr. Mime makes as if to attack them, then takes off running. This results in a chase, ending in a colored alley the girls saw Mr. Mime run into and they come in to find him-

Not there.

“Where’d he go?” Chibi Hilde Buttercup cries. Blossom shrugs.

“Well, he hasn’t been here. It’s still color.” They both ‘hmm’ and try to think, as the evil clown music crescendos in the background and Mr. Mime rises up behind them. They turn just in time to see him and-

The girl’s scream echo out through empty Townsville.

“And this should be green,” Bubbles says, sounding immensely pleased with herself. (The entire area is green, and she has just colored the bottom light of a street lamp the same.) “Ah, that’s better. Looks as if I’ve saved the day all by myself! Isn’t that right girls?” She turns her to see that Blossom and Buttercup aren’t there. “Girls?”

She begins to fly around, looking for them, her big blue eyes wide with worried confusion.

“Blossom? Buttercup? Girls? Blo~ssom, Bu~ttercup, where are you? Girls? Blossom! Buttercup! Girls?” She passes by the alley we saw Mr. Mime attacking the other two in, and gasps in horror. “Girls!” She rushes over to their gray, motionless bodies.

“Oh, no! Blossom! Buttercup! Not you two…” A single tears escapes her eye before she has an idea. “Waitaminute! I’ve got crayons!” Propping the other two up against the wall, she whips out her box of crayons.

“Don’t worry, girls, I’ll have you fixed in a jiffy!” She pulls out a pink crayon and a green crayon, scribbling pink on Blossom and green on Buttercup. “There! Good as new!”

The two bodies fall over. They have definitely not been revived.

“My crayons are beautiful…just, not magic.” Chibi Relena Bubbles drops her crayons on the pavement, where they break.

Turning her head up to the sky, she howls: Noooooo…

‘Oh, Bubbles! In this big, dark town, you’re all alone, and blue. What are you going to do?’ Quatre’s voice says, sounding truly heartbroken. (Not even the master himself can resist the charm of a Chibi!) We have been panning away from her, up and up and up- (is woozy from vertigo) suddenly we zoom back down to Bubbles.

“I’ve got it!” She cries.

Chibi Relena Bubbles starts up the beat on her drum seat, doing a solo to awaken her ‘sister’, Buttercup. The green fades back in, and Chibi Hilde Buttercup smiles, awakening and beginning to strum on her guitar. The color has reached Blossom, but she does not awaken for another four measures; then she begins to play her guitar as well, winking happily at the audience.

“Open your eyes and take in everything that you see! Look at all the colors- there’s yellow, blue and green…” Chibi Relena Bubbles sings. And she sounds good, too. (Ha ha ha!) “We can take the airplane, and fly across the world. Look at all the colors, everyone c’mon lets go! Because-“

Buttercup and Blossom join in- by this time the color is spreading across the whole city and awakening people. A crowd develops around their stage.

“Love, love, love, la-la-love! La-la-love! Makes the world go round! Love, love, love, la-la-love! La-la-love! Makes the world go round!” The other two stop singing, but Bubble sings the next verse flawlessly and tunefully as ever.

“Open your ears and listen what the world has to say! Hear the birds and bells and you will have a brighter day! Everyone has a special song- deep inside their heart.” Here she winks at Heero, who is in the audience, and still in uniform, watching her intently. He blinks and almost smiles.

“If you wanna come sing with us, it’s the perfect place to start!” Chibi Catherine Blossom gets down on her knees to do her solo, as Mr. Mime comes racing for the stage to try and stop them. Glaring but smiling dangerously, Catherine aims the tuning end of her guitar at the villain and glittering squares of light come from it, surrounding him and transforming him back into Rainbow with a showering of gold stars.

The music drops down to the drumbeat and Chibi Hilde Buttercup takes the lead, singing her line.

“Love, love, love, la-la-Love, la-la-love, makes the world go round.” Chibi Relena Bubbles joins in.

“You can’t hurt me, with the things that you do- I’ll pick up dandelions and I’ll give them to you!” Chibi Catherine Blossom finally joins in with her line.

“Puppy dogs- Kitty cats- the things we love.” They all repeat their lines once more, and go back into the chorus.

“Love, love, love, la-la-love, la-la-love, makes the worlds go round! Love, love, love, la-la-love, la-la-love, makes the world go rou~nd!” The audience erupts in cheering, and Rainbow (who had collapsed on the ground) slowly pushes himself up.

“Thank you girls, for restoring my color, and taking away my frown. I owe it you,” He bows to Chibi Catherine Blossom, “And you,” He bows to Chibi Relena Bubbles, “And you, I’m back- Rainbow the Clown.” He bows to Chibi Hilde Buttercup and doesn’t look particularly pleased that he’s a clown again anyway.

The girls finally turn to see him and land a few quick blows, knocking him back down.

“You!” Chibi Relena Bubbles cries. “Obviously Sing-Sing is the place for you!” Rainbow shrugs, stands up, dusts himself off, and: “Give me directions.”

Fade in on Rainbow bouncing a ball against the walls of his cell, looking fairly bored.

‘Boy oh boy! Looks like your colorful life is going to be pretty dull from now on, Rainbow.’ Quatre’s voice says, not sounding the least bit sorry. Trowa turns to faces the audience, give his equivalent of a smirk, and crosses his arms over his chest.

HeavyArms comes crashing into the cell (it seems it fell out of the sky, somehow…) and he climbs in the cockpit, piloting his Gundam far away from Townsville.

‘So, once again, the day is saved. Thanks to…the Powerpuff Girls!’ Quatre’s voice is properly enthusiastic, but a quick check shows that he looks rather like he wishes he could take SandRock and go after Trowa to blow things up. The girls appear against a moving pink-and-white heart background, playing their song again.

…Fade Out…

And so, having re-disposed of the monster, exit our hero. Oh, and if I get lotsa positive feedback, I might make some other Powerpuff Crossover fics!

Cast: (groan)

Lena: (whacking them all with Justice Scepter) Work! Work, damn you!

Cast: (glowering) Yes, mistress.

Lena: Good! You’re free to go, then.

Cast: (disappear so fast there is a pop)

So gimme feedback! Besides…you do want to see if Duo and Hilde or Heero and Relena have anything going on, ne? Or other possibilities…

Lena thanks you for your patience!

~Lena