So sup...here's the sequel to my story AN ODD SUMMER. Pairings are still up in the air, and i think this will still be an action/adventure story. I find it hard for myself to write romance, namely due to the fact that it doesn't feel right to me. Oh well, I'll work on it. So enjoy

Disclaimer: I do not own the Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory or their characters.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

A hand reached out from under some dark red sheets and slammed onto a digital alarm clock to stop the annoying sound. A mane of red hair poked out of the sheets as the owner glared at the clock that glowed the time of six thirty AM. "Fucking hate school," the man said. "After two weeks of restful sleep, I'm going back to that god awful place."

Throwing off the sheets, the person stood up to reveal a muscular young man that stood at 5'11". His red hair was chin length and messy. On both his arms were black oriental dragon tattoos. The most distinguishing thing about this person was his eyes: they were crimson in color.

As he made his way through his small home, he discarded the only piece of clothing he had, a pair of black boxers, he entered his small bathroom and jumped into the shower. As the water hit him his eyes widened. "Fuck that's cold!" he shouted. After changing the temperature to something bearable he continued to clean himself.

When, he was done he walked to his drawer and dressed in a red T-shirt, a black polo shirt and a pair of jeans. Putting his hair into a ponytail, he reached out to his phone on the drawer next to the closet and checked for messages. He frowned when he found he had one.

Unlocking it, he read the message.

Brick bring me a sandwich!

Your ever-awesome brother Butch

"Fuck that," Brick muttered. He placed the phone back and decided to make breakfast for himself.

Now for the past few weeks, Brick was living on his own in the 650 sq. ft. studio apartment above his workplace: A Taste of Life. To the southern wall, was the entirety of the kitchen, with the stove, fridge, cabinets and other appliances? To the western wall was the entrance, the bathroom (with bathtub, toilet and faucet) with a coat closet across from it. Along the eastern wall was a desk with Bricks laptop, bookshelf and drawer. A top the drawer was a small plasma screen TV. Along the northern wall was his bed, which was now queen sized, and two nightstands. Along the wall that separated the bathroom and living room was a small couch and close to the stove was a table with four chairs. There was centralized AC, which he also agreed to pay part of it for since it was part of the cafe as well.

Ms. Yuna Park, his boss, allowed him to stay if he paid for his own Internet, cable and some of the rent. The red head had agreed and did this behind his mother's back. Surprisingly when she found out, Ms. Bellum agreed to it.

It was during the first week, Brick used money he saved up to replace some of the older things such as the toilet, stove and fridge along with other things. This made a sizable dent in his finances, but he was fine with that. He wanted better things for the place he would live in for a bit.

After a quick omelet, he brushed his teeth, took his bag, picked up his keys and grabbed his cap. Locking the door, he headed down some stairs that lead to a back alley for the café. His car was parked in the staff section of the parking lot. As he got in and started it up all he could think of was one phrase. "I fucking hate school."

The school was bustling even thought it was only seven fifteen in the morning. People were walking about getting their schedules and new lockers. Not even the Powerpuff Girls were exempt from this. "Found mine!" Bubbles announced as she opened her locker in the hallway. She was dressed in a baby blue dress and grey cardigan. A pair of flats was on her feet.

"So we're locker buddies huh sis?" Buttercup smirked as she opened hers up, which was one away from Bubbles. The brunette wore a green T-shirt and black jeans as she threw her stuff into her locker. She then proceeded to close the place with a kick from her boots.

"I guess we're all next to each other then," Blossom sighed. The red head girl had her signature bow on her head and wore a red blouse with a pink skirt with some laces on them. On her feet was a pair of sneakers. "And Buttercup, don't cause damage on the first day of senior year."

"Whatever you say leader girl."

"What's up girls," a voice greeted from behind them. All the girls turned around to see Butch and Boomer. The blonde brother was wearing a white T-shirt with a navy blue windbreaker, pants and a pair of running shoes. The brunette had on a green jersey, a pair if black pants and boots. "Seems like we're all locker neighbors huh?" Butch smirked as he opened a locker across from the girls. Boomer did the same thing next to his brother. After getting their books both boys kissed their girlfriends.

"Can you lay back on the face eating so early in the morning?" Brute said as she stomped into view. She was wearing a black shirt, green camouflage pants and boots as well. "I'd rather not lose my breakfast."

"I usually would disagree with what Brute says but I agree for once, stop making out in front of me," Brat continued. She wore a yellow miniskirt and a blue top with blue heels. Since it was cold she was also wearing a jacket. She was next to her sister in the lockers.

"Oh shut up. You were trying to seduce a freshman just a few seconds ago," Berserk sighed as she went to a locker next to Blossom. She had on a dark pink jacket over a white shirt and a black frilled skirt. Her ribbons were in her hair, also done up in a ponytail. Just like Buttercup, she also slammed her locker shut after getting what she needed. Berserk then looked around before blinking in confusion. "Where's Brick?"

"Yeah where is he? He has my sandwich!" Butch exclaimed.

"I'm here I'm here," Brick yawned as he strode by the others. His locker was one away from Butch's and directly across from Berserk's locker. He didn't even bother to look as he did the combination. After yawning he took a look inside the metal contraption before opening his bag. The red head then proceeded to place a brown paper bag in before closing the locker gently and placing his head on the cool metal surface. He let out a sigh before turning around. He was suddenly met with green expectant eyes. "The fuck you want?"

"Brick, how many times have I reminded you about your language?" Blossom asked with her hands on her hips.

"1357 times including that one." That made Blossom blink and stare at him in confusion. With that taken care of, he turned to Butch. "What?"

"My sandwich?" the brunette smiled. The red frowned before open a small red portal to his right. Reaching in he produced a meatball sub on a plate.

"You mean this one?" Butch nodded fervently. He reached out only for Brick to drop it into a portal right under his hand.

"Hey! What the fuck bro? I haven't had breakfast yet!"

"You ate three plates of pancakes this morning," Buttercup deadpan bed as he whined.

"But I'm still hungry!" His girlfriend and brother rolled their eyes.

"What are your schedules like?" Brick asked as he produced his. After comparing it to his friends and raised an eyebrow at what he found out, he was in classes with all of them.

Brick's Schedule:

1st: AP Literature (shared with Blossom and Berserk)

2nd: Government (with Bubbles, Brat and Boomer)

3rd: Economics (with Butch and Buttercup)

4th: Study hall (with Brute)

1st hour lunch/ 5th (has class): AP Stats (with Bubbles, Berserk and Blossom)

2nd hour lunch (lunch time)/ 5th: lunch (with Berserk, Blossom and Bubbles)

6th: Teacher's aid

Unlike the previous years before, Brick decided that he wasn't going to try as hard senior year as he usually did. That was why he chose much easier classes, in his mind. "Seems like I'm going to see Pinky smartass and Bubs a lot this semester," Brick muttered to himself before turning around. "Smartass, Pinky let's go already."

"You can't tell us what to do," Berserk said crossing her arms. Even though she was protesting she was already following him. Blossom sighed.

"I'll see you guys later," she said to the remaining group of people. She then pointed at everyone except Bubbles. "Don't do anything stupid. This year is supposed to be relaxing." With that, she turned on her heel and followed the two red heads.

"It's like she expects us to do something stupid," Brute snorted. A few seconds later she continued, "So want to ditch class?" Everyone agreed but stopped when Ms. Keane, their principal, walked past them.

So the day went on as usual boring day. Brick found that he also had study hall and government with Robin, as well as economics with Elmer. All of the other the other people who he would consider part of his "acquaintances" (such as Mike Believe, Flloyd and Lloyd Floydjoydson and Mitch Mitchellson) were not in any of his classes. Sadly, Princess Morebucks was in his AP Literature and Government classes as well. He really didn't like her; she was a spoiled brat and would not back up on her annoying advances on him. Even after he rejected her twenty-eight times, he remembered all of them.

So now it was lunch and the girls went to the cafeteria already to get food, while Brick went to get his food from the locker. "I'm never eating that shit," he reminded himself as he grabbed the brown paper bag. It took an extra minute or two to get his food, but he'd rather do this than eat the slop in the kitchen. As he closed his locker and turned around, Brick heard another locker close a few feet away from him. Turning to his left, his eyes widened at who he was looking at.

It was boy with red hair just like himself, but was far shorter than his and a bit curly. He had on horned rimmed glasses that had a bit of a blue tint on them and his eyes were narrowed as they stared at each other. The boy had on a blue T-shirt and a white long coat that looked oddly like a lab coat. There were purple gloves on the boy's hands and he wore a par of loose fitting pants and black leather boots.

Brick snorted and threw his lunch back into the locker, and the boy mimicked what he did. "What the fuck are you doing here nerd?" Brick demanded.

"My sister DeeDee enrolled me here you cur," the boy replied as he fixed his glasses.

"DeeDee?"

"I think you'd know her better by the name of Delia, fool." Brick snorted.

"Didn't expect Delia to have such an annoying brother as you Dexter." Yes, stand just a few feet away from Brick was none other than his rival Dexter Cavanaugh. Brick noticed that Dexter's hand was twitching. "I take it you're wanting that rematch? You're fist is fucking twitching again."

"I suspect you do as well. Your testosterone levels are rising and you seem to be entering fight or flight mode."

"You and I both fucking know that we both can't stand the current score."

"Agreed. One win each, one lose, and seventy draws." The glasses wearing red head took them off to reveal a pair of green eyes and placed them into his locker. They seemed to glow as he glared at Brick. Brick snorted and took off his cap as he threw it into his locker as well. "Will the roof be satisfactory?"

"Less eyes and the teachers won't see so yeah." Brick then looked at his watch. "We've got about thirty minutes, so will a time limit be fine this time around? I want to eat lunch."

"Ten minutes, first to get knocked down three times loses."

"No powers or tech. I don't want to pay some fucking fines."

"Agreed." With their arrangements in place, both Brick and Dexter left and exited the hallway inside and out into the space between some of the buildings. Noticing that no one was around Brick flew up to the rooftop, while Dexter activated some rockets on the his feet and flew up onto the roof as well. As he landed Brick was already stretching. Dexter followed suit before turning on the timer on his watch. "Ready you cur?"

"What the fuck ever nerd," Brick replied. A countdown started on the watch that was exclaiming loudly.

3! Brick and Dexter got into their stances. Both put their left foot forward, their left hand out front with their palms toward each other and their right hand to their side. The only difference was that Brick's was in a fist while Dexter's was an upward facing palm.

2! The two seemed to be sizing each other up, as to see if they had changed over the course of a year.

1! Brick smirked and Dexter glared harder.

BEEP! The two threw their fists, each hitting the other person on the cheek.

"Where's Brick?" Berserk asked as she nibbled on some pepperoni pizza. "I thought he was going to join us for lunch."

"He was supposed to," Blossom said thoughtfully. She took a sip of orange juice as she thought about it and hadn't touched her salad at all. "He was only getting his lunch from the locker. That shouldn't have taken him long."

"What are you girls talking about?" Robin asked as she sat down next to them. "I thought the infamous Brick would be joining us."

"He was supposed to Robin," Blossom replied again. She had a worried look on her face.

"Aw…Is Blossom worried about her little crush?" Robin teased.

"Wh-What are you talking about?" Blossom stuttered as she blushed. She knew she kept it a secret that she really liked Brick. No one outside of Ms. Bellum knew about it. Next to her she could feel Berserk glaring. She knew her Punk counterpart liked him too, it was rather obvious.

"You know I'm joking!" Robin giggled, although her eyes basically were denying that. Blossom could basically feel Robin saying that she knew she liked him. But for the life of her Blossom couldn't tell why.

"Girls!" Bubbles shouted as she ran to their table. "I think something is happening to Brick!"

"What do you mean?" Berserk asked.

"I saw him fly off with someone following him. They went to the roof of the main building."

"We should go check it out," Blossom stated. "We'll be back Robin."

"Take your time!" Robin replied. "If I know Brick as well as I do, he'll be fine."

Brick raised his arm up to block Dexter's punch to his face, and retailed with a palm thrust towards his opponent's ribcage. The genius red head grunted after the attack, but didn't falter. Dexter spun towards Brick, getting into his guard before hitting Brick with his elbow to the chest, followed by raising his back fist into Brick's face. The Ruff staggered backward and shook his head to clear out some of the pain.

"Nice shot nerd," Brick complimented him as he rubbed his nose. "That hurt a bit."

"Please, you are not even trying," Dexter deadpanned. "You gave me that hit, and it insults me."

"Too true, although the chest hit was also a freebee wasn't it?" Dexter chuckled at that.

"Affirmative."

"So how about we stop with all this nasty weak shit and get on with the real fight." Dexter didn't bother to reply other than cracking his neck. Brick smirked as he ran towards Dexter. He raised up his leg to kick and Dexter's eyes narrowed and raised his arms up to block the attack. That was when Brick smirked. He spun backwards, and managed to place his leg into the space between Dexter's chest and arms. As he brought his foot down, Brick broke Dexter's guard. The Ruff then proceeded to spin around kicking both of his opponent's temples right after the other, before slamming his foot to the back of Dexter's head.

The genius staggered and was starting to trip, but then adjusted his body so that he managed to punch Brick right in the nuts just as he hit the floor. Both boys cursed as their backs hit the roof. "Such a fucking low blow," Brick wheezed as he stood up and took deep breaths.

"That was for the tournament three years ago," Dexter retorted as he stood up.

"Oh come on! It was a fucking accident!" Brick shouted. "You dodged when I was punching! It wasn't my fault you went the way my fist was going." The two glared at each other before rushing each other again. When Brick touched Dexter, the genius immediately retaliated with a left hook, to which Brick dodged. Dexter did a low kick. Brick countered by doing the same thing. The next move was what Brick wasn't expecting.

As moved to dodge another left hook from Dexter, the boy genius did straight punch with his right. It barely managed to clip Brick's shoulder but it stopped him in his tracks. He could feel the pain in his shoulder already. Before he knew it, Dexter did a sweep kick causing Brick to lose some footing. Before he could fix himself, Dexter got through his guard again and started to do a combo. Doing punches and kicks that Brick had a hard time blocking since he was off balance. After one final punch Brick was sent skidding backwards, which Dexter followed up by doing a double palm thrust to his chest. That last hit made Brick fall onto his back.

"Two-one scum," Dexter stated. Brick growled as he jumped up and sped towards the other red head. Dexter moved to dodge the kick, and was able to. He was about to retaliate but saw Brick go down low. He spun and latched his leg onto Dexter's throat before hopping into the air. As they made their ascent, Dexter tried to punch Brick's leg to break free of the attack but wasn't able to. At the apex of the jump, Brick spun around as they started to descend. As he kept swirling he built up momentum before slamming Dexter into the roof. The boy was still spinning after that attack and there was a small crater at the point of impact.

"Two-two fucker." Dexter got up and wiped away the dirt on his face. As they were about to charge again they heard a beeping sound. They looked at Dexter's watch and frowned. "Fuck, not again." Brick sat down and tilted his head back. He didn't use powers, not even his strengthened defense, during that fight, meaning that he felt all of the attacks. It did not help that those hits hurt like hell.

"I agree," Dexter muttered as he too sat down. He was rolling his neck rubbing his temples. They both had bruises and had a little blood on them. "DeeDee will not be happy with this."

"Fuck, you're lucky only one girl is going to worry about you. I have like six of them, and their super powered." His eyes then turned to the side. "Speak of the devil." Dexter turned to where he was looking and saw three flying figures. When they landed Berserk, Blossom and Bubbles rushed to his side.

"You know fighting is against school rules right?" Blossom told him. "You're lucky I'm not going to report you since it's the first day."

"Aw, I didn't know you cared Pinky. Thanks."

"Brick!" Bubbles shouted. She started to heal him and he frowned. "Why you are you hurt this much?"

"Don't worry about it, and I'll be fine Bubs." He then pointed to Dexter who was still massaging his head. "Go heal that fucking nerd over there." The girls turned and looked at the other boy, before Blossom pointed at him.

"You! You're that insufferable new kid in most of my AP Classes!" she shouted.

"I would prefer if you would keep your voice down. My head is killing me not thanks to that barbaric scum over there," Dexter sighed. Bubbles went up to him and started to heal his head.

"Fuck you nerd!" Brick retorted. Turning towards Blossom he continued to talk. "And what's your problem with him?"

"He thinks he's better than me! On the first day too! Saying that this class is so below my level, and that I was just a prissy know it all." Brick chuckled.

"Well you do give off that vibe Blossom Utonium," Dexter replied. That caused Brick to chuckle even more.

"Got that right nerd," Brick laughed. This earned an indignant "Hey!" from the Powerpuff leader.

"How do you know this jackass Brick?" Berserk asked finally speaking for the first time. She too didn't like the boy, seeing as he shared many classes with her as well.

"He and I are…rivals so to speak. Smartass, Pinky, Bubs, meet Dexter Cavanaugh. The only person I can consider my equal in fighting and smarts as of now. Nerd meet Berserk, Blossom and Bubbles, a few of the girls who are willing to kick my ass for being stupid."

"That must happen quiet often then," Dexter sighed. "I will want a rematch again later Brick."

"I hear ya." He turned towards Blossom. "You don't mind if we go to your house tonight right?"

"Why?" she asked.

"He and I need to settle our score."

"Why do you need my house then?"

"He and I will require a place where we can use our full capabilities without having to destroy important pieces of the city," Dexter replied. He stood up and cracked his back. "Now if you would excuse me, I'm going to go eat lunch." He turned towards Bubbles and gave her a nod. "I thank you for your assistance." He then clicked his boots together and the thrusters turned on as he flew down to ground floor.

"Did he have rockets in his shoes?" Bubbles asked confused.

"Yeah." Brick stood up and flew up too. "Now if you don't mind, I'm hungry and need food. Fighting nerd made me hungrier than I thought it would. The result weren't what I fucking wanted either." Brick flew down with the rest of the group following.

"What were the results?" Berserk asked.

"A fucking tie, 71 fucking ties in a lifetime. I have never felt so ashamed." As he continued on to get his food, he didn't notice that the girls were left behind looking at him in shock.

"Did he say tie?" Blossom asked the other two.

"I've never seen him lose, let alone tie," Berserk added.

"Just who is Dexter then?" Bubbles mumbled.

Leave a review please. Tell me what you think of it.

Oh and if you're wondering where I got the title for this this chapter...I used shuffle on my iPod. I'm not great with titles.

The Beginning by One Ok Rock (a Japanese band that tends to mix English and Japanese together. Go listen to them)