History FanFic / ImmortalitySyndrome

A ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls Powerpuff Girls]]'' DarkFic written back in 2001 by Mark J. "Parsec" Hadley. Despite being only four chapters long, it's very memorable and absolutely chilling.

* DownerEnding: ''Relapse'' ends with [[spoiler:Bubbles dying trying to stop Butch and Boomer and thinks she succeeds, with the Professor set to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, Boomer reminds alive long enough to activate the doomsday device, killing everyone on the planet. Bubbles is only brought back due to the fact that the bottle of Chemical X nearby managed to spill on her remains, but by then, she's the only living being on the planet. She starts to despair but [[RayOfHopeEnding finds a single flower that survived the destruction and resolves to take care of it]].]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Bubbles manages to do just at the end of ''Solitary Vigil''. Even though [[spoiler:preventing the BadFuture from happening comes at the cost of her own life, she dies happily with the knowledge that she succeeded in changing the past.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: The titular immortality syndrome causes this. Averted with Bubbles however; Blossom and Buttercup do manage to kill her and bring her back from the dead as well, but unlike her sisters, she's got the resolve and purity of heart to not be corrupted without [[spoiler:the need for Antidote X]].

%%* HeroicWillpower: The main reason why [[spoiler:Bubbles]] was able to resist the titular immortality syndrome.

%%* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Mojo Jojo.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mojo Jojo in both ''Syndrome'' and ''Relapse''. His [[spoiler:killing Blossom]] in the first story is what sets off her and Buttercup's rampage and all the death and destruction. Him [[spoiler:reviving the Rowdyruff Boys]] in the second has even worse results, as it [[spoiler: almost immediately leads to his death, and eventually, the extinction of all life on the entire planet.]]

* HeroicWillpower: The main reason why [[spoiler:Bubbles]] was able to resist the titular immortality syndrome, coupled with some IncorruptiblePurePureness.

* MessianicArchetype: [[spoiler: Bubbles]] becomes this by the end of ''Solitary Vigil''.

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Mojo Jojo.

The basic premise is that Mojo Jojo, fed up with always losing, ambushes the Powerpuffs outside their own house with his [[HumongousMecha Robo Jojo.]] He proves to be a NotSoHarmlessVillain this time, and actually succeeds in killing one of the girls.

Mojo Jojo is beaten to a pulp and thrown into jail, leaving the survivors to deal with the death. The Professor, however, figures out a way to bring the fallen girl back...but at what cost?

* AlwaysWithYou: In a way, Bubbles finds that [[spoiler:Blossom]] had been by her side through the events of ''Solitary Vigil'', as [[spoiler:Bulba, the sole white flower to survive the WorldWreckingWave at the end of ''Relapse'']] was actually one of her original ingredients.

* BackFromTheDead: The main premise of the series. [[spoiler: Blossom, Buttercup and later the Rowdyruffs are brought back from the dead. But apparently seeing TheNothingAfterDeath convinces them that that all life is meaningless and must be destroyed.]]

** ''Immortality Syndrome'': [[spoiler: Bubbles manages to stop Blossom and Buttercup's rampage but at the cost of killing them. The Professor decides it'll be better to let them go than trying to revive them again and the two scatter their remains to the wind.]]
** ''Solitary Vigil'': [[spoiler: Bubbles, now a grown up, manages to fix the Professor's time machine and heads back into the past though she knows it's a one way trip. She manages to destroy Mojo's plans for the sawblades and doomsday machine (that caused the end of the world in ''Relapse'') and races to the PPG house to stop Mojo from killing Blossom. She succeeds but is killed in the process. As she dies, she gives the Professor a journal of what happened, begging him not to make the mistakes that went on in her timeline before expiring. The Professor promises, giving her remains a burial in their backyard.]]

* CorruptTheCutie: The immortality syndrome can cause this in even innocent and good souls, turning them into mass murdering psychopaths.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: And Bubbles manages to at the end of ''Solitary Vigil''. Even at the cost of her life, she dies happy with the knowledge that she managed to change the past.]]
* EurekaMoment: In the ''Solitary Vigil'' chapter "Guilt", while [[spoiler:HIM torments Bubbles with the fact that her trip to the past was a StableTimeLoop due to the flaws in how Professor Utonium's time portal works]], she then realizes that she can find a way to fix those flaws and truly fix things.

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Poor Bubbles]] suffers several of these in ''Relapse'', including a TraumaCongaLine version upon realizing [[spoiler:Antidote X can cure the immortality syndrome, and she'd used it on Blossom right before killing her for the final time]], which is then followed immediately by the realization that [[spoiler:they'd let their ingredients go, meaning they can't be brought back and cured now that they know how]].

** Bubbles goes through this again in ''Solitary Vigil'' after finding out [[spoiler:her trip to the past using the Professor's time portal was part of a StableTimeLoop, so everything that has led to the BadFuture she's now residing in was basically, in large part, her fault]].

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Eventually what Bubbles sets out to do at the midpoint of ''Solitary Vigil''.
* StableTimeLoop: In ''Solitary Vigil'', [[spoiler:Bubbles find out from HIM that her first trip to the past using the Professor's time portal resulted in the BadFuture as she accidentally gave Mojo Jojo the idea to make the duranium blades that killed Blossom]] and kicked off this whole mess in the first place. Thus she has to figure out a way to permanently change the past.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mojo Jojo in both ''Syndrome'' and ''Relapse''. His [[spoiler:killing Blossom]] in the first story is what sets off all the death and destruction. Him [[spoiler:reviving the Rowdyruff Boys]] in the second has even worse results, as it [[spoiler: almost immediately leads to his death, and eventually, the extinction of all life on the entire planet.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Bubbles learns the hard way that putting an insufficient amounts of the ingredients to revive Buttercup does not end well - what's created is notably missing limbs and organs. In the end, she can only reluctantly MercyKill what was once her sister.]]

* CorruptTheCutie

* DownerEnding: ''Relapse'': [[spoiler: Bubbles dies trying to stop Butch and Boomer and thinks she succeeds with the Professor set to bring her back to life. But Boomer reminds alive long enough to activate the doomsday device killing everyone on the planet. Bubbles is only brought back due to the fact that the Chemical X managed to spill on her remains but by then she's the only living being on the planet. She starts to despair but finds a flower that survived the destruction and resolves to take care of it.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: And Bubbles manages to at the end of ''Solitary Vigil''. Even at the cost of her life, she dies happy that she managed to change the past.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: The titular immortality syndrome causes this. [[spoiler: Subverted with Bubbles however, Blossom and Buttercup do manage to kill her and bring her back. But unlike her sisters, she's too pure to be corrupted without the need for Antidote X.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Butch]] in Immortality Relapse, [[spoiler: and later Boomer]].

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Poor Bubbles]] suffers several of these in ''Relapse'', including a TraumaCongaLine version upon realizing [[spoiler: Antidote X can cure Immortality Syndrome, and she'd used it on Blossom right before killing her for the final time...]] -- followed immediately by the realization that [[spoiler: they'd let their ingredients go, meaning they couldn't be brought back and cured now that they knew how]].

* HeroicWillpower: Possibly used to resist the titular immortality syndrome.
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler: Bubbles]], during aforementioned HeroicBSOD.
* MagicAIsMagicA: ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/438387/1/Upgrade Upgrade]]'', an unconnected side-story by the same author, nevertheless implicitly keeps the {{Fanon}} established in IS straight by having the Professor TakeAThirdOption by [[spoiler: temporarily transferring Buttercup's mind into a robot so that it doesn't go through the psychological shock of experiencing her death and rebirth firsthand]].
* MessianicArchetype: [[spoiler: Bubbles becomes this]] by the end of Solitary Vigil.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:After discovering that Antidote X could have snapped her sisters back to normal, Bubbles becomes horrified at throwing out the remains of her sisters at the end of Immortality Syndrome, as she thought there was no way to restore them to the way they once were. Worse, at one point in the first story Buttercup ''had'' been exposed to Antidote X and even briefly tried to tell Bubbles and the Professor, but she was almost immediately knocked out and euthanized in the hopes of remixing her ingredients immediately in hopes that would have changed her back, without realizing it had already happened.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One chapter in Solitary Vigil has [[spoiler: Bubbles inadvertently inspiring Mojo to create the duraunium blades during one of her trips into the past.]]

* TheNothingAfterDeath: [[spoiler: Apparently seeing it is enough to switch Blossom into a "Kill Everything" mode. Buttercup follows suit after Blossom kills and revives her and Mojo bringing back the Rowdyruffs likewise cases this reaction.]]
* PsychoSerum: [[EpilepticTrees Possibly]] [[AppliedPhlebotinum Chemical X]] itself.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: By the end of Immortality Relapse, Bubbles has become this.]]
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: Eventually revealed as the true premise of Solitary Vigil.]]

* SurvivorGuilt: [[spoiler: Bubbles]] must cope with this in Relapse and Solitary Vigil.
* [[TakingTheBullet Taking The Blade]]: [[spoiler: How Bubbles manages to save Blossom's life and avert the BadFuture.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mojo Jojo in both ''Syndrome'' and ''Relapse''. His [[spoiler:killing Blossom]] in the first story is what sets off all the death and destruction. Him [[spoiler:reviving the Rowdyruff Boys]] in the second has even worse results, as it [[spoiler: almost immediately leads to his death, and eventually the extinction of the entire planet.]]

* BackFromTheDead: The main premise of the series. [[spoiler: Blossom, Buttercup and later the Rowdyruffs are brought back from the dead. But apparently seeing TheNothingAfterDeath sets into their minds that all life is meaningless and must be destroyed.]]

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: Bubbles learns the hard way of putting an insufficient amounts of the ingredients to revive Buttercup does not end well - what's created is notably missing limbs and organs. In the end, she can only reluctantly MercyKill what was once her sister.]]

* DownerEnding: ''Relapse'': [[spoiler: Bubbles dies in trying to stop Butch and Boomer and thinks she succeeds with the Professor set to bring her back to life. But Boomer reminds alive enough to activate the doomsday device killing everyone on the planet. Bubbles is only brought back due to the fact that the Chemical X managed to spill on her remains but by then she's the only living inhabitant on the planet. She starts to despair but finds a flower that survived the destruction and set to take care of it.]]

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The end of ''Relapse''.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mojo Jojo in both ''Syndrome'' and ''Relapse''. His [[spoiler:killing Blossom]] in the first story is what sets off all the death and destruction. Him reviving the Rowdyruff Boys in the second [[spoiler: almost immediately leads to his death, and eventually the extinction of the entire planet.]]

->''"With life, there is no 'tomorrow morning'. When night arrives, [[TheNothingAfterDeath it all ends."]] She looked down at her hands, holding them up in front of her, "Except for me. Thanks to [[spoiler: the professor]], I have been [[BackFromTheDead given another morning]]…and I know the truth."''
--> --[[spoiler: Blossom]]

The basic premise is that Mojo Jojo, fed up with always losing, ambushes the Powerpuffs outside their own house with his [[HumongousMecha Robo Jojo.]] He proves to be a NotSoHarmlessVillain this time, and actually succeeds in killing [[spoiler: Blossom.]]

Mojo Jojo is beaten to a pulp and thrown into jail, leaving the survivors to deal with the death. The Professor, however, figures out a way to bring [[spoiler: Blossom]] back...but at what cost?

* AfterTheEnd: [[spoiler: The premise of Solitary Vigil.]]

* DiabolusExMachina: Immortality Relapse has [[spoiler: Boomer's relapse triggering the death of the world]].

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Poor Bubbles]] suffers several of these in Relapse, including a TraumaCongaLine version upon realizing [[spoiler: Antidote X can cure Immortality Syndrome, and she'd used it on Blossom right before killing her for the final time...]] -- followed immediately by the realization that [[spoiler: they'd let their ingredients go, meaning they couldn't be brought back and cured now that they knew how]].

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: The end of Immortality Relapse.]]

* NietzscheWannabe: Sufferers of Immortality Syndrome tend to turn into this.

Can be found [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/326746/1/Immortality_Syndrome here]]. Proved to be so popular that it spawned two sequels: ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/551384/1/Immortality_Relapse Immortality Relapse]]'' and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/600039/1/Solitary_Vigil Solitary Vigil]]''.

* [[spoiler: AfterTheEnd: The premise of]] Solitary Vigil.
* AnyoneCanDie
* BackFromTheDead
* BittersweetEnding: ''Immortality Syndrome'': [[spoiler: Bubbles manages to stop Blossom and Buttercup's rampage but at the cost of killing them. The Professor decides it'll be better to let them go than trying to revive them again and the two scatter their remains to the wind.]]

* BreakTheCutie
* CameBackWrong: The entire premise of the series. It leans towards the DamagedSoul end.

* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding: And Bubbles manages to at the end of Solitary Vigil.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: The titular immortality syndrome causes this.

* [[ItsAllMyFault It's All My Fault]]: [[spoiler: Bubbles]], during aforementioned HeroicBSOD.
* [[spoiler: KillEmAll: The end of Immortality Relapse.]]

* TheNothingAfterDeath

* [[spoiler: SoleSurvivor: By the end of Immortality Relapse, Bubbles has become this.]]
* [[spoiler: SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Eventually revealed as the true premise of Solitary Vigil.]]

* [[spoiler: [[TakingTheBullet Taking The Blade]]: How Bubbles manages to save Blossom's life and avert the BadFuture.]]
* WhoWantsToLiveForever

A PowerpuffGirls DarkFic written back in 2001 by Mark J. "Parsec" Hadley. Despite being only four chapters long, it's very memorable and absolutely chilling.

* BittersweetEnding: ''Immortality Syndrome'': [[spoiler: Bubbles manages to stop Blossom and Buttercup but at the cost of killing them. The Professor decides it'll be better to let them go then trying to revive them again and the two scatter their remains to the wind.]]
** ''Solitary Vigil'': [[spoiler: Bubbles, now a grown up, manages to fix a time machine and heads back into the past though she knows its a one way trip. She manages to destroy Mojo's plans for the saw blades and doomsday machine (that caused the end of the world in ''Relapse'') and races to the PPG house to stop Mojo from killing Blossom. She succeeds but is killed in the process. As she dies, she gives the Professor a journal of what happened begging him not to make the mistakes that went on in her timeline before expiring. The Professor promises, giving her remains a burial in their backyard.]]

* CameBackWrong: The entire premise of the series.

* [[spoiler: EarnYourHappyEnding: And Bubbles manages too at the end of Solitary Vigil.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Immortality Syndrome causes this.

The basic premise is that Mojo Jojo, fed up with always losing, ambushes the Powerpuffs outside their own house with his [[HumongousMecha Robo Jojo.]] He proves to be NotSoHarmless this time, and actually succeeds in killing [[spoiler: Blossom.]]

* NotSoHarmless: Mojo Jojo.

A PowerpuffGirls DarkFic written back in 2001 by Mark J. "Parsec" Hadley. Despite being only four chapters long, it's very memorable and absolutely [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel chilling]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: One chapter in Solitary Vigil has [[spoiler: Bubbles inadvertently inspiring Mojo to create the doomsday machine during one of her trips into the past.]]

* BittersweetEnding: Immortality Syndrome: [[spoiler: Bubbles manages to stop Blossom and Buttercup but at the cost of killing them. The Professor decides it'll be better to let them go then trying to revive them again and the two scatter their remains to the wind.]]