EXT-TOWNSVILLE SKYLINE-DAY (But it is pouring rain)
NARRATOR: The City of Townsville...and it's another gloomy, rainy day.
MONTAGE of Townsville citizens going about their assorted activities, all carrying umbrellas and looking up sadly at the dark skies.
STOPPING on EXT-TOWNSVILLE BANK
NARRATOR: But wait...not everyone hates the rain...
The front door of the bank explodes outward in a green flash and MOJO JOJO, the evil green-skinned genius chimpanzee, leaps forward into the scene; clutching his laser cannon in his right hand and a large bag with dollar signs printed on the outside in his left. His head is turned toward the building and he fires one last blast, then turns to face camera. As the bank burns and frightened people run in all directions, alarms and sirens wail.
NARRATOR: ...it's Mojo Jojo!
MOJO JOJO: Yeeessss! I LOVE the rain! Especially when it is pouring...CASH! Muahahahahaha!!!
PAN ON SKY
Suddenly, the clouds part, the rain slows and the sun begins to shine. A rainbow starts to form an arc in the far distance, curving toward downtown.
WHIP TO
MOJO: It is my lucky day! Rainbows DO bring pots of gold! Hahahaha!
As Mojo grins evilly, his facial expression begins to change and, over the sound of incoming missiles, three familiar shaped shadows appear and grow over him.
NARRATOR: Hahaha! You're all wet, Mojo! That's no rainbow, it's...
MOJO: ...the Powerpuff Girls? Uh, oh!
WHIP TO
Close up of Powerpuff Girls diving in formation. Blossom and Bubbles are smiling and Buttercup, as usual, is frowning.
BLOSSOM: It's raining!
BUBBLES: It's pouring!
BUTTERCUP: This is getting boring!
MONTAGE as once again, Mojo gets kicked, punched, stomped, thrown and body slammed by the Girls, singly and in combination; and order is restored to the street, the fire doused and the loot returned to the grateful banker.
STOPPING on a battered Mojo, looking out through the rear door bars of the paddy wagon as it drives off, and the Girls stand, arms folded, accepting the accolades from the crowd. The camera pulls back quickly showing not a cloud in the sky.
NARRATOR: Oh, Powerpuff Girls, you could brighten anyone's day!
FADE TO BLACK
NARRATOR: The next day...
FADE IN: EXT-TOWNSVILLE SKYLINE-DAY
NARRATOR: The City of Townsville...is under attack!
CUT TO: An enormous three-headed monster is moving through the streets, flinging its arms into buildings and knocking them over. Many explode in flames.
NARRATOR (Voice over action, in an 'under your breath' mutter): Man, if I had a dollar for every time I've said THAT.
The monster has two very thick, sturdy legs and a large tail for balancing; which it whips, smashing more buildings. From the legs up, it separates into three distinct torsos, each with two arms. It is covered with scales from head to foot and the heads are identical, birdlike; with intelligent eyes that seem to watch everything. It doesn't seem to be the typical smashing machine.
NARRATOR: But here come the Powerpuff Girls to the rescue!
WHIP TO
The Girls zooming in formation once again. They suddenly pull up and stop, startled.
BLOSSOM (pointing): Whoa! We never saw anything like THAT before!
BUBBLES: Well, three heads is better than...uh..three?
Blossom and Buttercup blink at each other.
BUTTERCUP: Ah, never mind. It'll be three times the fun. Let's git it!
PAN ON GIRLS
Buttercup takes off with her sisters in hot pursuit.
BLOSSOM: Girls! Circle its heads and make it dizzy!
ZOOM IN ON
Monster as the Girls begin to fly in a tight circle around the three heads. Instead of watching them, it begins to rapidly rotate each of its heads, turning them completely around like spinning tops. The Girls become disoriented and bump into each other, their eyes twirling circles.
PAN ON
Girls as they fall to the street and crash through the pavement. They quickly float up through the holes, rubbing their heads.
BUTTERCUP: Well, Blossom, that worked great. I'm taking the direct approach!
She flies up and off camera.
BLOSSOM: No, Buttercup, wait!
She and Bubbles go after Buttercup.
PAN ON
All three, Buttercup in the lead. She breaks the pointed top off from a burning building and flings it like a spear at the center head. At almost the same time, the target does the same thing, and the two building chunks meet and explode, showering the Girls with shrapnel.
BUTTERCUP: Why, that...!
BLOSSOM: Girls, I think it's...
BUTTERCUP: No time to think! Come on, Bubbles, let's barbecue this bully!
She and Bubbles take off toward it, with a slightly annoyed Blossom right behind. All three fire their eye lasers at one of the heads apiece, but the monster fires back, overpowering them, turning them into little floating black powderpuffs. Shaking off the soot, Bubbles takes on a furious look.
BUBBLES: NOW you're gonna GET IT!
She rears her head back, about to unload.
BLOSSOM (horrified): No, Bubbles, not the sonic scream! Don't!
PAN ON GIRLS
Too late. All three sets of lungs unleash a yell that blow the Girls backwards through a dozen buildings, flattening those and dozens more. The Girls climb up out of the debris, cleaning themselves off.
BUTTERCUP: Man, we can't beat that thing!
BLOSSOM: Can't you guys see? It's reading our minds! It knows what we're going to do the same time we do!
BUTTERCUP: Hey, you're right! Sorry, Blossom.
BUBBLES: But, how do we stop it?
BLOSSOM: We don't!
BUTTERCUP and BUBBLES: HUH?
BLOSSOM: Let's go!
PAN ON
Girls, as they fly right up to the monster. It ignores them, continuing to wreck downtown.
BLOSSOM: See, it won't attack us! It only reacts to what we do. Girls, we've been fighting...OURSELVES!
BUTTERCUP and BUBBLES (sharp
intake of breath): HIM!!!
The monster vanishes in a red mist, leaving in its place the crimson-faced demon.
HIM (Female voice): So, you finally figured it out, did you?
(Evil voice): What took you so long? I'm late for my bath because of you!
(F.V): Seriously, you Girls are slipping! These poor fools of Townsville rely on you to protect them and look what you've done! It's half destroyed, and it's all... your... fault! You'd better get busy cleaning up, while I go think of something else to throw at you. Ta ta!
Him disappears with an effeminate
flip of a claw, in a red vapor cloud.
Buttercup flies toward the
spot.
BUTTERCUP (angrily): Hey, come back here and fight like a ...whatever you are. Geesh!
BLOSSOM (looking down sadly at the disaster, sighs): Come on, guys. We're gonna be here awhile.
NARRATOR: Gee, Girls, I'd love to help; but it's not in my job description! Meanwhile, in Him's underworld hideout...
CUT TO: INT-HIM'S LAIR-ETERNITY
Him is soaking in his tub.
HIM (E.V.): Curse that Blossom! She NEVER should have figured it out that soon!
(Sad F.V.): And it was going so well, too! Oh, I'll never be able to get rid of those goody-goody brats!
OFF CAMERA SQUEAK
HIM (F.V.): What's that?
He draws up one claw from the water, in it is his rubber duck and prime source of inspiration, Mr. Quackers. He holds the toy up to his ear and squeaks it.
HIM (E.V.): What do you mean, I'll never be able to destroy them?
SQUEAK
HIM (F.V.): Oh, I did just say that, didn't I? Well, that was just a rhetorical comment, of course I'll destroy...
SQUEAK SQUEAK
HIM (E.V.): Who are you calling a slacker?
SQUEAK SQUEAK SQUEAK
HIM (F.V.): Oh, you are so right! I've been wasting my talents on cheap gimmicks like monsters and such. I'll never beat them that way. I need to be more...CREATIVE!
He gives the duck a hug.
HIM (F.V.): Oh, Mr. Quackers, you are BRILLIANT!
CUT TO: EXT-OBSERVATORY ON TOP OF VOLCANO MOUNTAIN IN TOWNSVILLE PARK, AKA THE LAIR OF MOJO JOJO-DAY
NARRATOR: Meanwhile, at the mountaintop lair of the evil Mojo Jojo…
CUT TO-INT-MOJO'S LAIR
Mojo stands, gasping for breath, still wearing his prison clothes.
MOJO: Lucky for me that creature destroyed the prison, thereby giving me my freedom, or I would not be free to be standing here reflecting on my state of no longer being imprisoned. Now I can get to work devising a plan to replace the money those accursed Powerpuffs took from me which resulted in my incarceration and my obtaining the freedom which allows me to devise the plan for replacing the money. Oooohh, my head hurts. Perhaps I will take a nap first.
The telephone rings.
MOJO: Curses!
(He answers it):No! I will not return to prison! Today. Oh, it is you, sir!
CAMERA SPLIT SCREEN
Showing both parties to the conversation.
HIM (E.V.): Mojo, you fool! What are you talking about?
MOJO: Oh, nothing. I would not be here talking to you if not for the creature who destroyed the prison, thereby allowing me to be here talking to you.
HIM (F.V.): Oh, that. Well, Mojo, luv, looks like you owe me one. Does that time machine of yours still work?
MOJO: Surely you do not plan on using my time travel device.
HIM (F.V.): If I didn't plan to use it, then (E.V.): I wouldn't have mentioned it!
MOJO: Oh, of course. But sir, we tried that once before and it failed. That is, it did not work, the desired result was not achieved, the plan did not succeed as planned...
HIM (F.V.): Mojo, Mojo, Mojo...I take full responsibility for that. It was my plan that failed, and I realize my mistake. This time, we will succeed in destroying those little creeps (E.V.): FOR ETERNITY!
Him and Mojo laugh evilly together briefly.
HIM (F.V.): Now, Mojo dear, while you're making sure that contraption of yours is working, I'll be paying Professor Utonium a little visit! See you soon!
They both hang up and FADE TO BLACK
CUT TO-EXT-UTONIUM SUBURBAN HOME-NIGHT
CUT TO-INT-GIRLS ROOM
PAN FROM
Girls asleep in bed, through the empty, quiet upstairs to PROFESSOR UTONIUM'S room.
ZOOM IN ON
Utonium's sleeping face.
PAN
Slightly upward to show Him's face appear above Utonium. He twirls one of his claws and a small red cloud forms and descends upon Utonium as Him chants his evil spell.
HIM (F.V.): Sleep, Professor,
and while my claw twirls
Dream of your precious Powerpuff
Girls!
Bring to life every memory
you've had
You keep the good, and I'll
take (E.V.) THE BAD! HAHAHAHAHA!
The evil laughter echoes.
FADE TO RED
CUT TO: EXT-MOJO'S LAIR-NIGHT
CUT TO: INT-LAIR
ZOOM IN ON
Mojo and Him stand inside the time travel device. Mojo pushes some buttons and twists some knobs.
MOJO: So, why will this plan work when all the others have failed?
HIM (F.V.): Because I've always relied on some physical force to do my work for me. Using monsters to fight the Girls, turning their loved ones against them. The last time we tried to STOP Professor Utonium from creating them. We can come close but it never works. We must make him NOT WANT to create them in the first place to stop him from creating them.
MOJO: You are beginning to sound like me. How do we accomplish what you are talking about?
HIM (F.V.): I stole from him
all of his bad memories of the Girls since he made them. When I plant those
memories inside the dreams of the Utonium of the past, he'll be so terrified
of being a parent, he'll NEVER go through with it! We'll be rid of those
bug-eyed twerps
(E.V.) FOREVER!!
MOJO: That is BRILLIANT! Now, all I must do is send us back to just before the accident in the laboratory.
HIM (F.V.): Better make that the day before. Dreams require sleep, you know.
MOJO: Oh, yes, of course.
He makes some final adjustments, initiates the time travel sequence, then rubs his hands and grins an evil grin.
MOJO: At last, those accursed Powerpuffs will be no more.
HIM (thinking to himself, in E.V.): Neither will you, you fool!
The machine and its two occupants fade from view.
NARRATOR: Why, that dirty double cross-dresser! Will Him's evil plan finally bear the bitter fruit of destruction? Is this the end of our beloved Girls, and Mojo Jojo too? Find out in the next chapter of 'To Heck and Back'!
FADE TO BLACK
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