Bernadette's Fight Before Christmas

**Bernadette's Fight Before Christmas** is the first holiday special of the Punch Time Exploders. This story tells of how Bernadette spends Christmas with her favorite Powerpuff Girls, and how they put Princess Morbucks in her place. This takes place between Bernadette, Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure and Bernadette Meets Ben 10: Alien Swarm.

## Plot

Bernadette arrives in Townsville the day before Christmas Eve, and the students at Pokey Oaks Kindergarten, including the Powerpuff Girls, are all anxiously awaiting Santa's annual journey. When the Powerpuff Girls discuss their requests to Santa, Princess comes upon them and declares that, since her father is rich and can buy her any material goods, her desire to be a Powerpuff Girl is what she has requested from Santa. However, the Girls tell Princess she will not be getting her wish from Santa and will instead only be getting coal since she is most definitely naughty, citing her previous actions and her overall personality as proof. To this point, Princess furiously refuses to believe them, but when her servants become afraid to answer when she asks them if it is true, she decides to investigate. While everyone else in Townsville (even Mojo Jojo) gets their houses prepared for Santa's arrival, Princess flies her private jet to the North Pole and sneaks into Santa's workshop. When she finds his documents, to her dismay, she finds out she is the only child in the world who is on the naughty list (which is a Post-It note). In response, she erases the headlines of the lists and switches them around, making it now look like she is the world's only nice child and that everyone else is naughty.

During Christmas Eve, Bubbles wakes up after hearing Santa come and goes downstairs to get an early look at the presents, but is devastated when she not only finds no presents under the tree, but also a lump of coal in her stocking. She then gets suspicious when she finds coal in Blossom and Buttercup's stockings as well and then, using her x-ray vision, sees all the other children in Townsville have no presents and have also received coal. She wakes up her sisters and tells them of this strange occurrence. The Girls and Bernadette decide to confront Santa, thinking he must have made a mistake. However, as soon as they get outside, they are suddenly attacked by a now-superpowered Princess, who gloats over the fact she has now gotten what she wanted. She then says she is going to go tell Santa that the Girls and their mother are coming to destroy his workshop and ruin Christmas forever for branding them naughty.

The Girls chase Princess all the way to the North Pole, trying to deter her progress on the way until the four of them eventually crash through the roof of Santa's workshop, their battle wrecking the place. Santa, who is exhausted and disheartened by a night of delivering coal to everyone and the delusion of all the children in the world being naughty, comes in on their battle and Princess tries to convince him not to listen to the Girls. However, he has a hard time feeling he should not since he already knows the Powerpuff Girls are really good people and always save the day. Frustrated, Princess throws a tantrum in front of Santa, insulting him and threatening to have her father build a parking lot over the workshop unless she is given what she wants, even at the cost of everyone else in the world. Bernadette then asks Santa if Princess is a good example of being on the Nice List.

Realizing the truth, Santa declares he doesn't need some list to know who is truly naughty and nice. Furious, he grabs Princess by the ear, telling her she leaves him no choice and places Princess' name on the Permanent Naughty Plaque (a plaque for children who are so naughty that they have no hope for redemption and which, unlike the lists, they cannot tamper with) and strips her of her superpowers when she tries to escape to tell her father. He then says he shall rectify his mistake of giving all the children coal, but upon seeing his reindeer running around scared and his sleigh broken as a result of the battle, he realizes he may not be able to do it. Fortunately, since the Girls can fly so quickly, he asks them to deliver the presents. The Girls happily agree to do so, dropping Princess off in jail on the way. After finishing the job, the Girls return home to bed with Bernadette, but they do not stay asleep for long because it is now Christmas morning and open presents with the Professor. As the narrator says at the end, Christmas is saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Girls.

## Trivia

* This is the first holiday special for the Punch Time Exploders series.

## Links

* deviantART
	+ Part 1: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-s-Fight-Before-Christmas-Part-1-775509050
	+ Part 2: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-s-Fight-Before-Christmas-Part-2-775541111
	+ Part 3: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-s-Fight-Before-Christmas-Part-3-776028593
	+ Part 4: https://www.deviantart.com/heavyhitterconnor/art/Bernadette-s-Fight-Before-Christmas-Part-4-777257497
* Full story: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ad9oKUjqRBBCIi3ZkDmYbN\_ZOpB7V6KGxOIMA0WG6PI/edit?usp=sharing