I know it took awhile to get this out, but here it is, when you see the length of it, you'll understand the reason for the time! hehe!

Chapter 3

Bubbles is sitting on a chair inside the church on her own. Most of the guests have left now, due to the lateness of the bride. Even Ms. Keane had left her. She sighed, swinging her legs on the chair.

She took her cell phone from her bag and dialled her green puff sisters' number.

Buttercup, who was at the hospital still with Butch, was sitting at his bedside. She had Butchs cell phone in her hand, and she was looking at the picture of her red headed sister, who was tied and gagged to a chair.

She let a tear slip down her rosy cheeks. Why did this have to happen? Why today? As awkward as Buttercup felt as she thought it, her and Blossom had gotten very close as the years had passed. Mainly because Bubbles moved to Seattle, and the Professor had sadly passed on, so there was only them two left in Townsville (apart from their counterparts) and the fact that the two had grown up a bit more, was the reasons.

The thought of never seeing her sister again absolutely killed her. "Butch." Buttercup murmured.

He looked up towards her.

"Do you, do you think they'll, they'll...kill her?" Buttercup asked, her voice shaking.

Butch looked down. He knew the answer, he just didn't have the heart to tell her.

"Well, I know they are capable of it, but, I dunno, I don't think they will. Don't worry babe, she'll be fine, seriously. We'll find her, I promise." Butch replied, smiling reasuringly.

When he smiled that way at her, it made her want to grab him up in a embrace and never let him go.

Butch motioned for her to move closer.

She did, smiling warmly at him, he placed an arm round her and she snuggled into him best she could without hurting him.

She got caught up in the closeness and softly whispered "I love you."

Butch looked down at her, softly pushing her up so he could gaze at her.

"Really?" he asked, looking shocked.

Buttercup began to look worried. Why did she have to go and make things worse by opening her mouth?

"I, I, well, look, I'm sorry I ever saind anything." Buttercup stammered, getting up to leave. But Butch grabbed her hand to stop her.

"No, don't say that. I, I mean, Is it a bad thing?" Butch said, turning a shade of red.

"Ur, well, You tell me." Buttercup replied, also blushing.

He pulled her close again. "I don't think so." He purred, surprisingly smooth, as he had butterflies jumping around in his stomach.

Buttercup smiled, as he pulled her towards his lips, engaging her in a hard kiss.

Just then, the phone in Buttercups pocket goes off.

She sadly breaks the kiss and answers it.

"This better be important, I was in the middle of something pleasurable." Buttercup grumbled, then felt a twang of guilt, as she remembered the situation with her sister.

"Buttercup its me. Whats the sitch at the minute then?" Bubbles said, hurriedly.

"Oh, sorry. Well, I found the limo. And Butch. He'd been shot. But Blossom, well shes no where to be seen. Turns out some guys who have a grudge against the boys have her, and they want money for her safe return. Bricks gone out there to get her back."

"Oh..mygod!" Bubbles sighed. "Everyones left here, there was nothing I could do!"

"Don't worry, I think Blossom and Brick will save the wedding for another day now."

"Wait a minute, did you say Brick had gone out there?" Butch asked.

"Erm, yeah, he has, is that a problem?" Buttercup asked, holding the phone away from her face.

"Hell yeah! He'll be killed if he goes out there alone! I gotta go get him before he does something he'll regret!" Butch yelled, throwing the covers off him.

"Butch! Sit down! You could make yourself worse if you go out there! And what help will you be, you've got a gun wound!" Buttercup cried, trying to force him down. But he had quite plainly overpowered her.

"I can't just leave him to it! Then, then I'll have no brothers!"

Buttercup softened as he said this. He was right, Brick needed their help.

Meanwhile, Blossom is left alone in the canal boat with Weasel. Hes standing over her, the gun firmly in his hand threateningly, glaring down at Blossom. Shes glaring back, trying her best to hide her fear. Though its quite evident that she was very scared.

If these guys killed Boomer, they'd surely have no trouble polishing me off... Blossom thought, gulping frightenedly.

"It'd be a crying shame to have to gun down such a dame. Cos man, you are one hot lady." Weasel said, kneeling down next to her. Blossom shoved he r head down so she couldn't see him staring at her, but he cupped her chin in his hand, pulling her face up.

She glared at him, and with a sick smile, Weasel tried to pull her top from her dress down.

Blossom resisted and tried to kick him away, but he had the gun dangerously close to her, his finger on the trigger. Tears streaked down her face as his hand snaked down her top, grabbing at her breasts with sharp fingernails.

"Whats wrong sweet thang? You looked eager a min ago!" he cackled.

Suddenly Brick swooped through the hatch to the narrow boat crying "Get your dirty hands off my woman!"

Weasel looks up, shocked, then stands up as quickly as he can. His hands come from down Blossom's dress and he Grabs his gun and points it directly at Blossom's head.

Thats when Brick spaces out. There was another scene in his head. Boomer, his brother, tied to a chair, a gun being held to his head. Only this time its Snake holding the gun. Brick and Butch are standing, there mouths open wide as they helplessly try to help their brother. "One false move, and you can say goodbye to baby boy blue." Snake mutters, a evil grin playing on his face.

Brick and Butch need to help him, but if they move, hes finished. They try to use super speed, but its hopeless, Snake pulls the trigger, and BANG! The bullet shoots through Boomers head before there very eyes. He was gone.

Brick comes back to reality, shaking his head. "One false move, and you can say goodbye to your little bride." Weasel mutters menacingly.

No, Brick thinks. I won't let that happen. Not again.

"Weasel, wait! Don't shoot! Can't we make a deal or something? Negotiate?" Brick begged as tears filled in his fiances eyes.

"Weasels don't negotiate." he replied.

"How about letting her go, then if you got outta Townsville, and we wouldn't tell the cops on you. You'd get away scott free!" Brick said, while he said this, he'd edged a stpe closer to Blossom.

Weasel thought for a minute. It was a reasonable deal. He would get out of the shadows that way, maybe make something of himself. But then, Snake might hunt him down, accusing him of being a traitor, and try to kill him too. He couldn't get out of the shady life, not now, he was in too deep. He took the gun away quickly and barged past Brick and exited the canal boat. He locks them in there, then rushes off to find Snake.

Brick rushes to his wife-to-be's aid, ungagging her and untying her. They hug closely, and Blossom cries into her husbands shoulder with relief, glad to be in his warn embrace once again.

"Brick! I thought I'd never see you again!" She said throguh tears.

"Blossom I swear I'm never letting you go. Never." Brick said as he buried his head in all her curly red locks.

"Brick whats going on? Why the hell did all this happen! You've got some explaining to do." Blossom said, wiping tears, then looking into her fiances eyes.

"I'm sorry, I should have told you about them. Its just, we haven't heard from them in years, so I didn't think there was any point. It would just worry you girls." Brick said.

"So Boomer dying in that aeroplane crash? It was all lies?" Blossom says.

Brick looked down, ashamed.

The silence is interrupted by Bricks phone ringing in his pocket.

He looked at Blossom, into her beautiful pink eyes, that were surrounded by smudged and streaking make up, he looked at her fiery orange hair, all curly and wild in big curls, he looked at her ripped top and chest covered in bruises and gave her a open mouth kiss.

He then answered his cell. "Yeah?"

"Brick! Thank god! Its me Butch, where are you?" Butch said. Butch, Buttercup and Bubbles were at the hut by the pier, where Boomer had been killed those years ago. Bubbles was clutching to Buttercup.

It hurt her to think he'd been killed in there.

"I'm in the red barge with Blossom -"

"Is she ok? Did they hurt her?" Butch interrupted.

"Shes a bit scratched up and bruised, but now I'm with her, she'll be fine." Brick said, placing an arm round her affectionately.

"Good. So why you still in the barge?"

"We're locked in. Weasel locked us in and left to find Snake. We're a ticking time bomb. I dread to think what will go on when Snake gets here. He doesn't think before he acts. He might do anything..." Brick said.

"Ok, well we'll beat him to it and come get you both k? Inabit." Butch hung up and all three of them started walking along the pier in search for the red barge.

"Its gotta be here somewhere...a big red barge, shall we spread out?" Butch asked.

"If these guys are dangerous, shouldn't we stick together?" Bubbles said.

"Shes right. Come on." Buttercup said.

Meanwhile, in the barge...

"Brick you don't know how scared I was! I thought your wedding day was supposed to be the happiest day of your life..." Blossom said, looking into her dirt and blood stained lap.

Brick saw the sorrow in his girlfriends eyes. He then noticed the blood too.

"Blossom whats bleeding!" He asked. She pulled up her dress hemline, and on the inside of her thigh near her lacy panties was a stab wound. It wasn't too deep, but Blossom was recieving alot of pain form it.

"Shit! When did that happen!" Brick asked, taking a tissue from his pocket and laying it on her wound.

"Well, when they took me from the limo I struggled, I felt something sharp and painful then. But it didn't hurt that much at the time..." Blossom said, putting pressure on the wound.

"I swear I will kill that guy. And I mean it. He can't hurt my wife (well nearly) and brother, and KILL one of them." Brick growled.

Blossom looked up at him. "Brick, why are we still in here? Can't we get out -" Blossom was interrupted by the entrance ripping open.

"Brick! Why are you here? Do you want to lose your wife too!"

It was Snake. Brick automatically grabbed Blossom's hand.

"Snake get outta here! Can't you leave us alone! Wasn't taking Boomer's life enough!" Brick growled.

"As a matter of fact," He pulled a out a gun. "Its not."

Bricks eyes changed from anger filled slits to wide ones.

"Now, hand her over, and we'll be on our way. The best way to get to you is to hurt her." Snake said, pointing the gun from Brick to Blossom.

"Leave her out of this! She has nothing to do with our past and what happened!" Brick repplied.

"Fine then. You can both rot in hell with your brother." He then fired the gun at brick and left.

"Brick!" Blossom cried.

Butch stopped dead in his tracks. "Did you guys hear that?" He asked.

"Hear what?" Bubbles asked as they ran (well Butch did best he could with his back.) along the pier.

"Son of a...!" Brick growled loudly. Snake grinned. He went to get Blossom, but stopped. He then exited, closing the hatch, locking it, then banging the lock down witha hammer that lay on the deck, so it was mangled and harder to open.

"I certainly heard that..." Bubbles squeaked.

"It was Brick!" Buttercup said.

"He's hurt, I can tell by the way he shouted. Come on!" Butch said as they began to run.

"Brick! Brick ohmygod! Quick, let me take a look." Brick took his hands away from his arm, they were covered in blood. Blossom took the tissue from her stab wound and started to dab his bullet wound.

"I shouldn't really use this tissue when its been used with my own wound, but what the hell, I've got nothing else to use." Blossom said as she took a closer look at Bricks wound.

"It don't matter. Now are bloods entwined too." He said, seething through the pain, smiling that dazzling grin at her.

Blossom smiled at him, in bad situations, he tried to make things better.

"Brick you need to get to the hospital. So do I by the looks of it. But thats not as important as your arm. We need to get out." Blossom said.

Outside, Snake and Weasel returned to the barge, with a two big bottles of petrol. They doused the boat in it.

"Boss is this necessary?" Weasel asked.

"Yeah. All the ruffs are gonna die anyways, they've both been shot. Maybe not in the head like Boomer, but still." Snake replied.

Butch, Buttercup and Bubbles were waiting round the corner, watching Snake and Weasel wet the boat.

"What is he doing! Is Blossom and Brick in there?" Bubbles cried.

"Only one way to find out." Butch said. He whipped his phone out and dialled Brick's number.

"Blossom." Brick grunted through pain. she looked up to him in response. "My phone, its ringing."

Blossom took it from his pocket and answered it.

"Hello?" Blossom said warily.

"Blossom! Its soo good to hear your voice! Are you hurt? Is Brick?" Butch cried.

"Butch! Are you ok!" Blossom cried.

"I'm find, just a little wound. What about you and Brick! Blossom I rang to tell you that Snake and Weasel are covering the barge your in with petrol! I think they're gonna light it!" Butch said.

"What!" Blossom took the phone away from her ear. "Brick they're setting the barge alight!"

"What the fuck! We need to get out of here and fast!" Brick yelled, trying to stand up.

"Thanks for the warning Butch, we'll see you in a minute, hopefully. I just want you to know how much you mean to me, and tell my sisters they mean the world to me, and I'll never fortget them." Blossom said as she allowed tears to flow.

"Stop talking like you're gonna die and get outta there!" Butch yelled, then hung up.

"Snake!"

Snake looked round to see a completely angered Butch, with a just as fiesty Buttercup, and a worried Bubbles.

"Butch! I thought you'd be dead by now." Snake said.

"Well I'm not! You can't get rid of me that easy."

"Before you start it all. I just wanna fill you in. I stabbed Blossom, and shot Brick. I've now doused the barge they are both in with highly flammable petrol. I've got a match. I'm gonna light it." Snake said with an insane grin on his face.

"Snake! No, don't!" Butch said, knowing he wouldn't hestitate.

"This guy is dented!" Buttercup yelled.

Snake grinned, his eyes wide, at Buttercup, then cut the rope that held the barge to the pier, then dropped the lit match over the barge.

It immediately set alight, the boat engulfing in flames.

"OHMYGOD!" Bubbles cried, setting in tears straight away.

"NO!" Butch yelled.

Buttercup just stood and watched, the shock of it all completely taking her over.

Inside, Blossom screamed and held on tight to Brick.

"Brick! Its soo hot! We gotta get out! I can't breathe!" Blossom cried.

"Come on," He said, trying to get up once again, his arm placed round Blossoms shoulders. She helped trying to pull him up, but he sagged down again, the blood loss getting to him.

Blossom took him and placed an arm round her neck.

"Don't worry Brick, we're gonna be alright, I hope." Blossom said, noticing Brick was starting to loose concsoiusness.

The smoke started billowing into the barge, when Blossom noticed this, she looked at where it was coming from. A small blacked out window was open a crack. Once Blossom had pulled the black paper from the window. she saw there was a ledge, that the fire hadn't spread to yet, with a punch at the glass, it smashed, and she managed to stick her foot through it.

As the boat was hot alot of it melted away when she punched and kicked at it so she and Brick could get through.

"Ouch! Man thats hot. Brick, speak to me, you still with me?" She asked as she managed to get through and drag Brick through it too without doing him too much damage.

He was half awake, trying to get up and help.

"I'm here, I'm here...sorry..." He managed to stand, and Blossom gripped onto him.

"We're out! I got us out!"

"Brick! Blossom!" Buttercup and Butch yelled as they saw a tint of red hair.

"Buttercup! Butch!" Blossom replied.

"Quick jump! Into the water! Or fly or something! Quick!" Buttercup yelled quickly.

Blossom stepped off, but then looked at her fiance.

"Brick? BRICK!" He'd gone, he'd passed out.

She held him limply, shaking him with the arm she had round him, holding him up.

"Blossom jump!"

BANG!

The boat exploded. Fire blazed everywhere, and all that was heard was the screams of Blossom, and the screams of Buttercup and Bubbles as they shielded away from the outcome of the exposion.

Butch dared to crack an eye open as he sheltered Bubbles and Buttercup.

He couldn't see Brick, or Blossom. All he saw was fire. It was just everywhere.

He shook his head, feeling Buttercup and Bubbles trying to look up and see. But he wouldn't let them. He'd been through losing a sibling, a triplet, he didn't want them to, and he didn;t want to have to again. But it seemed no matter how much he hid them from it, it had hapopened...and its hard to forget...

WOW! how long was that! R&R!