Immortality Syndrome

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

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

The basic premise is that Mojo Jojo, fed up with always losing, ambushes the Powerpuffs outside their own house with his Robo Jojo. He proves to be Not So Harmless this time, and actually succeeds in killing

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  back...but at what cost?

Can be found here. Proved to be so popular that it spawned two sequels: Immortality Relapse and Solitary Vigil.

The entire series contains examples of:

 * Solitary Vigil.
 * Anyone Can Die
 * Back from the Dead
 * Bittersweet Ending: Immortality Syndrome:
 * Solitary Vigil:
 * Break the Cutie
 * Came Back Wrong: The entire premise of the series.
 * Corrupt the Cutie
 * Diabolus Ex Machina: Immortality Relapse has.
 * Face Heel Turn: Immortality Syndrome causes this.
 * Heel Face Turn:  in Immortality Relapse,.
 * Heel Face Revolving Door:.
 * Heroic BSOD:  suffers several of these in Relapse, including a Trauma Conga Line version upon realizing   -- followed immediately by the realization that.
 * Heroic Willpower: Possibly used to resist the titular immortality syndrome.
 * It's All My Fault:, during aforementioned Heroic BSOD.
 * Magic A Is Magic A: Upgrade, an unconnected side-story by the same author, nevertheless implicitly keeps the Fanon established in IS straight by having the Professor Take a Third Option by.
 * Messianic Archetype:  by the end of Solitary Vigil.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: One chapter in Solitary Vigil has
 * Nietzsche Wannabe: Sufferers of Immortality Syndrome tend to turn into this.
 * Not So Harmless: Mojo Jojo.
 * The Nothing After Death
 * Psycho Serum: Possibly Chemical X itself.
 * Survivor Guilt:  must cope with this in Relapse and Solitary Vigil.
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?
 * Survivor Guilt:  must cope with this in Relapse and Solitary Vigil.
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?
 * Survivor Guilt:  must cope with this in Relapse and Solitary Vigil.
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?
 * Who Wants to Live Forever?