Everything Nice

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[Tetsuwan Penguin]

“What's happoshu?” Astro asked.

“It's a mildly alcoholic beverage similar to beer or saki,” Professor Ochanomizu told him.

“You like it?” the boy robot asked.

“Most human males have developed a taste for it,” the professor replied. “would you like to try some?”

“It wouldn't have the same effect on me as it does on you, Hakase,” Astro replied.

“I'm sure it wouldn't!” his guardian laughed. “However your taste sensors would find something new to analyze.”

“Well in that case, I guess I'll go along with you to this event.” Astro said.

“Thank you,” the professor smiled, “I could use the company.”



Buttercup spotted Astro on line with the professor a few people ahead of her and her father. “Hey Astro!” she yelled “I didn't know robots liked beer!”

Astro turned around to see his classmate behind him. “Hi Buttercup!” he yelled back. “I'm with Ochanomizu-Hakase, my guardian. Aren't you a little young yourself to drink beer?”

“They have a non-alcoholic version my dad said I could taste,” she cried back. “OH this is my old man,” she added pointing to the adult standing next to her.

“Hello sir!” Atom waved back.


Skunk and Lamp had just finished filling the small tanker truck they'd parked out behind the brewery. “Good think we had that pipe installed to drain out the bottom of the brewery vessel,” Lamp said.

“Yeah, and even better we discovered the old gas pipe that ran under the street. We can come back anytime and sample Mr. Hop's latest run any time we want.” Skunk cackled.

“Shall we go?” Lamp asked.

“Lets wait and see the reaction of the crowd to the taste test.” Skunk suggested. “If anyone starts tossing their cookies after drinking his beer we can always empty the tanker truck down the nearest sewer.”


Dr. Utonium and Ken parted their van across the street from the brewery. They stood at the end of a very long line of customers about a block away from the brewery. Poochi looked up at the professor with a questioning look on his face. “Why are we here?”

“To sample some free beer,” the professor told him.

Ken laughed, “I don't know what grown ups see in the stuff, but I'm willing to taste the alcohol free version of the stuff,” he told his pet dog.


Pabst Hops looked at his watch and saw that it was now time to open the doors to his store and allow the first customers to enter. He was simply amazed at the length of the line of people queued up, the advertisements he'd posted in the news papers and on line must have done the job. He took a deep breath and could smell the pungent aroma of his wonderful happoshu. The thought hadn't occurred to him that the smell was a bit stronger than it should have been, but the excitement of the moment kept him from realizing it.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Mr. Hops motioned to one of his assistants to open the door. The employees of the brewery escorted the crowd in a dozen at a time. Each group of twelve was escorted around the plant and given a tour of the facility. Once the group had seen everything they returned to where Mr. Hops was behind a bar serving out samples of his brews.

Buttercup and her dad finally reached the front of the line. “Welcome to the Pabst Hops mega-micro brewery!,” a pretty young woman wearing dark bib overall jeans and a denim apron said. She lead them through the factory floor where the ingredients for the beer were measured out and added to large vats where water was added and the cooking process began. She pointed up to the large tank that once held natural gas, and explained how it had been divided into four different brewing tanks and lined with sanitary material that would promote the aging process. She explained how they were making three different kinds of their famous micro brewed beverages, and what the differences in the processes were.

Finally they reached the end of the tour, where a line was waiting to be served. Mr. Hops had lined up several rows of paper cups and was filling them as quickly as he could from a spigot on the end of a hose. Three buttons on the serving end allowed him to select which brew went into each cup. Buttercup picked up a cup standing in front of a sign reading “Alcohol free”. Her father pulled a large silver stein from his jacket pocket and laughed, “I brought my own!” Mr. Hops smiled and held the spigot over the large stein and filled it to the brim with his premium brew.

Astro and the professor were not far behind Buttercup and her dad, they walked away from the bar and exited the building, each holding onto a paper cup. Astro slowly sipped his beer, not quite sure about the tasted. “So what do you think?” the professor asked.

“Interesting blend of carbohydrates, sugars, and proteins.” Astro said.

“I didn't mean the chemical analysis,” the professor laughed, “what about the taste.”

“Pleasurable, although my electronic brain is not affected by the alcohol like your carbon based one,” Astro replied, “So I can't comment on that property of the beer.”

The paper cup suddenly fell from Astro's hand as he held his hands up to his ears. He sniffed the air as he rotated his head about. “Something's wrong, Hakase,” he said. “I'm detecting a low frequency rumble coming from the back of the brewery and there is suddenly an increase in the concentration of alcohol molecules in the air.”

Buttercup turned back to look at the brewery building when she saw something out of the corner of her eye. She stopped dead in her tracks as her father continued to walk away, totally unaware of the fact that his daughter was no longer right behind him. “Iie!” she cried out as she started transforming into her powerpuff persona.

Dr. Utonium, Ken and Poochi exited the building, the professor and his son each sampling a different product. Poochi refused to taste any of the brew, and he walked ahead of the professor and Ken as they walked away from the brewery. Suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks.

“What's wrong Poochi?” Dr. Utonium asked.

“My sensors are picking up a low frequency vibration coming from the brewery.” the robot dog replied. “I also smell a strong scent of carbohydrate molecules on the breeze. The dog pointed back at the large brewery tank. “I think it's sprung a leak!” he shouted.

The professor turned and saw a small plume of liquid spraying from the side of the tank. It was growing larger as he watched. “Poochi, call the powerpuff girls! I think we might soon have a disaster on our hands!” Poochi put his hands up to his mouth and yelled “POWER PUFF GIRLS WE NEED YOU!”

The lockets on the belts that Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles wore suddenly began to glow and vibrate. Right next to the brewery Buttercup was already transformed when her belt began to vibrate. “Well NO DUH!” She thought as she leaped skyward to fly towards the tank.

Blossom and Bubbles were at the mall together shopping when their belts signaled the emergency. Bubbles opened her locket and saw the message from Poochi. “Looks like a disaster in the making downtown at the new mega-micro brewery!” she said. Fifteen seconds later, Bubbles and Blossom were on their way flying towards the brewery.


“Hakase, Run!” Astro yelled. “The brewery tank is going to rupture!”

“Yipes!” Ochanomizu cried, “There must be several hundred thousand gallons in that tank! We'll all drown in beer if it ruptures! Do something Astro!”

“On my way!” the boy robot cried out as he took to the sky heading towards the tank.

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

Astro quickly flew towards the tall towering tank and hovered next to Buttercup.
“Good thing we were both here,” Buttercup said, “But now what?”

The leak was up about two thirds of the way from the bottom of the huge brewery tank. It had started as a hole where several welds had failed, but now was extending downwards as the metal that held the outer skin together was cracking.

“I'm going to try and repair the welds with my lasers,” Astro said, as he flew closer with his fingertip lasers firing. At first it seemed that he'd succeeded, but no sooner than he'd welded one crack, another one opened up elsewhere.

“It's no use, that tank is just too brittle.” Buttercup said, “You're just shoveling crap against the tide!”

By that time Bubbles and Blossom had arrived. Astro was still sealing each new leak as they opened up, but already a river of beer was flowing down the street, and getting deeper. The people fleeing from the brewery were already knee deep in the stuff.

“This isn't working!” Astro sighed, "I need to get this tank the hell away from here and dump it someplace, only it isn't going to hold together much longer."

“I'll take care of that!” Bubbles yelled. She swung her giant bubble wand and quickly enclosed the tank in a tight bubble.

“Yeah!, Astro yelled, “That will keep it in one piece just long enough!”
Astro dove straight down into the ground and disappeared. “What's he doing?” Blossom asked.

“You'll see in about a second,” Buttercup laughed.

Suddenly the huge tank rose above the ground. Astro was underneath lifting it high into the air. It was still leaking beer, but most of that was contained inside of the giant bubble surrounding it.

"There's still this river of beer heading downtown," Blossom said.

“Let's fix that!” Buttercup cried. She swung her hammer down, crashing it into the river of beer. Her blow created a shock wave causing the liquid to turn to a foamy vapor that rose into the air.

“My turn again!” Bubbles yelled as she waved her bubble wand. Every drop of the beer foam was no enclosed in a huge cloud of bubbles.

“Lets blow that out to sea!” the girls yelled. Blossom with her yo-yo and Buttercup with her hammer created a wind that picked up the beer cloud and carried it far away from New Townsville.

Astro returned to see that the area was almost back to normal.

“What happened to my brew tank?” Pabst Hobs asked.

“I dropped it in the ocean about a mile off shore,” Astro said. “Sorry about that, but it was a total loss anyway.”

“That's such a shame,” Professor Ochanomizu said. “It was such great beer too. Maybe Astro could help you build a new one, I think we have some scrap parts in the Ministry's junk yard.”

“I'd love to help!” Astro said.

“Me too!” Buttercup laughed. “It would make my dad happy,”

“I knew I shouldn't have hired that shady engineer and his partner with the construction crew.” Hops said. “The price was just too good.”

“Can you describe them?” Astro asked.

“Sure can.” Hops said, giving Astro a verbal description of the two men.

“Hakase, that sounds like Skunk and Lamp.” Astro said.

“Why am I not surprised?” the professor replied.

“Hey you guys,” Blossom said, “I think they are getting away!” She pointed to a tanker truck that was now speeding down the street. Astro zoomed his eyes into telescopic mode to see who was driving the truck. “It's them alright,” he yelled taking off after the truck with the power puff girls right behind him.

Blossom threw her yo-you at the truck, wrapping the cord around the rear bumper. She tried to hold the speeding tanker back but was still being pulled along with it like a fisherman in a small boat who had just hooked a whale.

Bubbles enveloped the truck in a giant bubble with a swish of her bubble wand. The truck lifted off the ground as the bubble rose into the sky. Astro then grabbed hold of the tanker and flew it back to what was left of the brewery. “Call the cops!” he yelled. “Tell Tawashi we got them!”

“Just one minute.” Dr. Utonium said. "These two are under the influence of black Z-rays." He ran over to his van an returned with his Z-Ray neutralizer gun. He aimed it at the two criminals and pulled the trigger releasing a barrage of blue,red,yellow and green rays. Skunk and Lamp morphed back into their usual appearances.

Just as soon as Utonium had finished the sound of a police siren grew closer and Tawashi's squad car arrived. “Good work Astro, I see you finally caught these two.” he said.

“Well I had some help.” The boy robot replied, pointing to the power puff girls.

“Thank you too, power puff girls.” Tawashi said. “I've heard mostly good things about you.”
The girls bowed at the inspector and giggles. “You're welcome!” they answered.

The Masked Marvel drummed his fingers on the kitchen table, while his wife and daughter watched.

“What's the problem dad?” Buttercup asked.

“I thought my favorite brew would finally be in good supply, but then the brand new brewery whent kaplooie!” he sighed.

“Well Mr. Hops did leave you a case of the stuff," Buttercup said. "Good thing those criminals had stolen a few thousand gallons of it and Astro and the power puff girls recovered it.”

“Yeah, but when that runs out there won't be anymore.” he sighed.

“Astro is going to help rebuild the brewery.” Buttercup replied, “Not the end of the world.”

“Hey how do you know all that?” her father asked.

Buttercup thought quickly and answered, “Astro is in my P.E. class. We're close friends!”

“That's nice.” her father said. “You two compete against each other in sports?”

“Damn right!” Buttercup laughed, “and I usually kick his butt!”

“That's my girl!” her father said proudly.

The End

[Little Brown Fox]

“This isn't working!” Astro sighed, I need to get this tank the hell away from here and dump it someplace, only it isn't going to hold together much longer.

Missed quotations again. Sorry if I peeved ya, but...

[Tetsuwan Penguin]

“This isn't working!” Astro sighed, I need to get this tank the hell away from here and dump it someplace, only it isn't going to hold together much longer.

Missed quotations again. Sorry if I peeved ya, but...

Your eyes must be better for close in work than mine.

[Little Brown Fox]

Haha, not hardly. It's just a thing that can happen in writing, I suppose. I'm lucky enough to catch my own snafus sometimes; maybe it's easier to notice in someone else's work than your own. I know I've missed some stuff before, and don't notice until after I post it. Sometimes, I can end up typing completely the wrong thing- the keys aren't even close sometimes!