After making a quick stop at Townsville Hall to see the mayor, Blossom and Buttercup headed for Townsville's jail. Without telling him about Bubbles' 'problem', they convinced him of the importance of their request and he granted it. They didn't figure they'd have too much trouble. Anyone who was dense enough to give their arch-enemy Mojo Jojo a full pardon so he could baby-sit them was easy pickings.

Their target didn't get many visitors, and they were the LAST people he expected to see. He stared out at the two girls in a mixture of awe and fear.

"Hello, Lenny." Blossom said. Buttercup glowered at the former obsessive collector of Powerpuff Stuff, Lenny Baxter.

"Uh, h-hello, Blossom. L-look, girls, I'm all over that now, putting me in here was the best thing that ever happened to me!"

"That's okay, Lenny, we know that we're just so irresistible." Buttercup grinned.

"Knock it off, Buttercup!" Blossom told her. "Lenny, how would you like to get out of here? For good, I mean."

He rushed up to the bars, grabbed them and gaped. "You mean it? What's the catch?"

Blossom held up a piece of paper for him to read. "It's a full pardon, IF you help us!"

"If you don't, those bars won't stop me!" Buttercup said.

"Now Buttercup, there's no need to make threats!" Blossom chided her. "Lenny, all you have to do is use that packaging thing you used on us. We don't care how you did it, we won't even watch, we just want you to do it for us!"

He was immediately suspicious. "On what?"

"We need you to put a toy back in the package for us!"

Blossom had kept Buttercup in the dark about the plan and she cracked up when she heard this. Blossom elbowed her to shut her up. Lenny wasn't so amused. He went to his bunk and sat down.

"Forget it! No way am I gonna help you put something back in a package just to increase its value! I might have been a twisted geek with no life but I have morals!"

They were shocked. Blossom didn't have any other ideas and she didn't expect this. Her tears were not fake.

"Please, Lenny!"

Buttercup jumped in. "Lenny, it ain't to make money! It's a present for Bubbles an' we took it out of the package to make sure it worked! We can't give it to her like that!"

"Hmmmm. Okay, then. Does it work?"

They looked at each other, their eyes growing wide and their cheeks bulging to keep from laughing. It failed.

"Nope!"

They took Lenny to the storage locker where what few possessions he still had were kept, so he could get his secret 'tools of the trade'. His Powerpuff collection had been sold off to pay his legal bills and put a little aside to start a new life when he got out of jail. Then they flew him to their house to begin earning his pardon.

Lenny looked around the girls' bedroom nervously.

"Wait right here, Lenny, we'll be back with her in a second." Blossom said.

"Her?"

"Uh, she's so lifelike, it's hard calling her an 'it'!" was Buttercup's quick-witted save.

"Yeah, it's unbelievable how life-like she is." Blossom said.

"Ok. Just hurry up, being in here gives me the creeps!"

After they left he heard the two girls sputtering into mad laughter again from outside the room, and he shook his head.

"What the heck could they have found that's so unbelievably lifelike? I can't think of anything except...NO! IMPOSSIBLE!"

His hands began to shake in anticipation.

"Whoa, good one, Buttercup!" Blossom told her sister as they flew down to the lab to get their 'unbelievably lifelike' deceased sister.

"Yeah, we're gonna hafta watch what we say around people. This is so weird! I hope Professor figures out a way to fix her before school on Monday.?

Blossom looked at her watch. It was almost two in the afternoon on Saturday, about six hours since Bubbles fried herself. They didn't have much time left and none at all if Lenny didn't come through.

"Buttercup, let's not even THINK about school!" she said as they entered the lab. "Professor will find something that'll work."

They saw Professor sitting forlornly at his desk. Bubbles was nestled in his arms, looking just as sad. They both looked up when the other two came in.

"Uh, oh." Blossom said. "Maybe not."

"It's no use, Girls. Her energy signature is all over the place. I can't get a good read on it. I did come up with something else, but when I call Egon, all I get is his answering machine, telling me that he had to go out of town unexpectedly."

"And he isn't comin' back!" Bubbles wailed. "I'm gonna hafta stay like this!"

"He's coming back, we just don't know when. But, the news isn't ALL bad. Show 'em, honey!" Professor said.

She floated away toward a big rectangular box made of clear plastic. Inside it sat an empty glass beaker. The chamber was sealed except for a hole in one end. Bubbles put her mouth up to the hole and screamed. The beaker shattered.

"All right! You got your sonic scream working again!" Buttercup shouted.

Bubbles beamed proudly. "An' Professor can hear me now! I been practicing!"

He smiled slightly. "Yep, I figured if she could make objects move, she could make sound waves move, too. She learned quickly."

"So now I can scare the pants offa Mojo the same time I'm beatin' the pants off him!" Suddenly her face crumpled and she flew back into his arms.

"But I don't wanna be a ghost any more!"

"You won't have to!" Blossom exclaimed. "Bubbles, we know how we can keep you until those guys get back! Professor, your idea can still work!"

He jumped up, forcing Bubbles to do the same. She floated, eagerly awaiting the news.

"What, Blossom? The only way to preserve her body is by freezing it. I'm afraid of what that might do."

"Professor, remember some guy named Lenny Baxter?" Blossom asked.

"What?? He snapped his fingers. ?Of course, the packaging thingy!"

"Lenny's gonna put me inside a package again?" Bubbles asked in surprise.

"Yeah, Bubbles, he thinks you're a giant toy!" said Buttercup.

"Yippee!! Can I watch?"

"Better not, honey, now that anyone can hear you. Girls, we don't know how long this situation is going to last, so we'd better be prepared to let Townsville in on it. Blossom, you and Buttercup work with Lenny. Bubbles can help me. I'm going to try to make a few copies of these specs."

"Professor, is that such a good idea, letting everyone know?" Blossom inquired.

"We don't have much choice, dear. When Bubbles turns up missing for a few days, they'll start asking questions. Better to just get it over with."

"Oh, man." Buttercup groaned, pointing toward her sister's soon-to-be-packaged body. "If somebody was gonna make a movie outta this, they could call it 'Weekend at Bubbles'!"

Lenny paced nervously back and forth. Just being around all this real Powerpuff stuff was like an ex-smoker suddenly being tempted to take up the habit again.

"What's taking so long?!" he complained out loud, seconds before Blossom and Buttercup entered the room.

He watched, his eyes getting larger as they laid the focus of his task on the bed. He walked up to her, just staring. He squeezed the left arm, feeling the pale flesh. Without warning, he whirled around and startled the two Girls.

"You lied to me! Where did you GET this?"

"W-w-what do y-you mean?" Blossom asked nervously.

"You told me you took this out of the package to see if it worked! This was never IN a package, was it?"

His accusation paralyzed them. "WAS IT?!" he shouted.

"Uh, n-n-no." Blossom stammered.

"Thought you could put one over on me, didn't you? Well, I don't CARE where you got it! I never dreamed I'd ever even SEE one of these! The life-size 'Bed-wetting Action Bubbles' with realistic skin and growing hair never went into production! There was rumored to be only two prototypes and they gave up on it because of design problems. This has to be one of them. Do you have any idea just how valuable this is?"

"Yeah, actually, we do." Blossom said. "She means the world to us!"

When Lenny looked at them strangely, Buttercup quickly added "She means it would mean the world to us to give it to our sister. I just wish we hadn'ta played with it."

"Yeah, I was wondering about that." Lenny said. ?These were supposed to come with a nightie, not a dress." He took a closer look and spotted the burn on Bubbles' left hand. He pointed to it. "And I think I know what happened. It wet itself and shorted out the wires in the legs, and fried the battery pack."

"Actually, she got fried and THEN wet herself." Buttercup thought but didn't say.

"Yeah, that's what happened. Lucky Bubbles' real clothes fit." Blossom said. "So, can you put it in a package for us?"

"No problem. I think you're nuts to use this for a toy. I know guys who'd pay thousands to get their hands on it, even in this condition; but if that's what you want, it's your funeral."

For the third time that day, they went into hysterics. He had to throw them out of the room physically.

As they stood out in the hallway, Blossom and Buttercup watched as lights seemed to flash from under the door to their room. There were a few electronic 'zaps', and some more flashes.

"Lenny, are you almost done yet?" Buttercup called through the door.

"Yeah, in a minute!"

"Professor!" both girls yelled.

Bubbles was there almost instantly and they held up their hands to their mouths to shush her. Professor took a minute getting there.

"Remember, Bubbles, don't say nothin'!" Buttercup whispered.

The door opened and Lenny came out holding his handiwork. Her arms and legs were fastened to a cardboard backing with plastic loops and a clear plastic bubble covered her. The whole thing had been vacuum sealed and there was no trace of a seam anywhere.

Bubbles stared at herself through the plastic wrap, her paler-than pale blue eyes bugging out. Blossom and Buttercup appeared awestruck as well. Professor seemed somewhat impressed but wasn't going to give any rave reviews to the geek who had once imprisoned his daughters.

"Hmmm, not bad."

"Well there she is, folks, the ultra-rare 'Bed-wetting Action Bubbles.' Lenny announced.

Bubbles was not pleased but remembered to keep quiet. Instead, she bonked Lenny once on the head. He looked around, startled, but everyone just grinned.

"Uh, anyway, Professor, if you really intend to repair this, the battery pack is here, the whole thing is probably gonna need rewiring and I don't know what to do about the bleached-out skin. Looks like it was out in the sun. But I still say leave it alone."

"Can't do that, Lenny. We don't care about collector value, nothing but the best for our Bubbles, right Girls?"

All three nodded their heads, though Lenny saw only two.

"When I get through with her, she'll be a real living doll!"

Lenny watched the three of them cracking up and swore he could hear Bubbles laughing, too. He wanted to escape this nuthouse ASAP.

Blossom said "Thanks, Lenny! Everything's all fixed with the Mayor, so you're a free man!"

"Can the Girls drop you somewhere, Lenny?"

"Yeah. Take me back to jail. I feel safer there! You people are all crazy!"