(A/N) OH MY GOODNESS, I am so sorry for the long wait! I had no idea this much time had passed. Reason behind it was because I moved and it wasn't your typical moved-down-the-block kind so it threw off my routine completley. But I am now a bit more settled in and I will try to update regularly!

Blossom sat upright on her bed, chewing on her nails nervously. She glanced at the clock on her night stand that read 1:30 AM. Brick should have been here by now. He always arrived before ten.

A voice deep in her head nagged at her, telling her that something was wrong. Not only that, but she had a bad vibe that she couldn't shake off. She felt anxious and her body trembled from the uneasiness in her stomach.

Buttercup came home shortly after she managed to finish some of her diner. She tried speaking to her, asking her where she went, but she never received an answer.

"Everything's the way it should be now" was all she said before excusing herself to bed early.

Blossom let out a troubled sigh. Her eyes stayed glued to the window, hoping to see any sign of Brick. She knew he wasn't going to show up. All she hoped for was that there was a good excuse for his absence and nothing to do with her sister confronting him.

"Oh God, please let there be a good reason…" she murmured to herself quietly.

She decided to get some rest for the night and tried to get comfortable in her bed. But it was lacking warmth. She had gotten so used to Brick being by her side at night, feeling so secure in his arms, that now she couldn't even remember how it used to feel when she was alone.

Blossom closed her eyes shut. She desperately wished for there to be an automatic way to just fall asleep.

She nearly jumped out of her bed when the hotline rang downstairs. She frowned. Things were usually peaceful at this hour – surprisingly. She heard Bubbles answer the phone and she dragged her feet downstairs. Blossom saw Bubbles having a difficult time trying to understand the mayor over the phone.

"Mayor? Mayor, are you alright?" called Bubbles worriedly. She looked up at Blossom and shook her head slightly.

Blossom signaled for the phone and listened for herself. There was lots of static, and she heard an occasional scream in the background.

"Mayor? Can you hear me?" asked Blossom.

"Girls! Please help me! The boys are-"

More static.

"Mayor! The boys are what? Mayor?" called Blossom impatiently. She was now yelling into the phone over the noise. Bubbles and Buttercup were huddled against the phone, listening.

Suddenly, she heard deep snickering from the other side of the phone. Her posture went rigid.

"What are the sweethearts of Townsville going to do now? Not so strong now, are we" hissed a voice into the phone.

A cold chill raced down Blossom's spine. She knew that voice.

"Brick?" she whimpered helplessly, her voice shaking slightly.

Silence. He didn't respond. She was about to say something again, but he was gone. Buttercup yanked the phone out of her hand effortlessly, Blossom's fingers going limp. Her sister yelling into the phone sounded strangely distant to her.

"What did he say to you?" asked Bubbles, watching her sister's face drain of its natural color.

Buttercup slammed the phone down hard. "They've got another thing coming if they're causing trouble this late at night. No one ruins my sleep. Just wait until I get my hands on them, I'll tear them to pieces" she grumbled to herself as she went back upstairs to change in to her normal attire.

"Blossom? You don't look so good. Was it that bad?" continued Bubbles, grabbing her shoulders.

Blossom shook her head slightly, unconvincingly. "No. Nothing. He said nothing" she murmured. She was fighting back tears.

Bubbles saw her getting misty eyed. She whipped her head over her shoulder when Buttercup came running downstairs, trying to put her shoe on.

"Well come on! Don't just stand there. I want to get this done and over with as quickly as possible" she said and opened the front door.

Bubbles tugged on Blossom's hand and got her to react. Blossom then made her way to her room and pulled out her clothes. She got changed as fast as she could but the entire time, all she could think of, was that he lied to her.

He told her that he changed. He told her that he wouldn't go back to the way he used to be. He told her that he gave it all up for her. He told her that he didn't want to lose her. And it was all lies.

She was hurting, and she was hurting badly. She felt drained, and she didn't think that she could put in all of her effort tonight.

A tear ran down her cheek and she quickly wiped it away. Crying would not help her.

This, however, did confirm her suspicion that something was wrong. Brick had not shown up because he was causing trouble. This seemed to spark anger inside of her. Confrontation tonight was not going to go very well.

She hurriedly put her bow in her hair and zipped downstairs and out of the house. She joined her sisters in the sky as they flew to the city.

Her heart fell to her stomach when she caught a glimpse of Townsville in the distance. She could hear numerous sirens going off and commotion from the citizens. Not only that, the city was aglow with a vibrant orange and smoke was emanating from buildings. Everything was up in flames.

XxXxX

"Yo, Brick are we done here?" asked Butch as he finished tying the Mayor into a chair.

Brick looked around, taking in the damage him and his brothers had caused. The office looked like a disaster, alright. Bookshelves were on the ground, books and important-looking documents covered every inch of the floor, desks were flipped over, the walls were all torn up, and the windows were completely shattered.

His eyes flickered down to his hand, where he still held the phone. The way Blossom said his name kind of took him by surprise. She sounded hurt. It made no sense to him because she was not the one who was betrayed. She had no right to be feeling like that.

Having Blossom invade his thought was beginning to fuel his anger. He growled in frustration as he threw the phone against the wall.

"Yeah, let's go. Those Powerpuff's are probably on their way now" he muttered.

Butch restrained the Mayor's head in place while Boomer tried to tie a handkerchief around his mouth.

"You'll all end up in jail! This I can guarantee you! The Powerpuff's will get you!" hollered the Mayor, still struggling under Butch's grasp.

None of them paid any attention to him. Boomer successfully tied the piece of cloth around the Mayor's mouth and Butch pulled harder on the rope that constricted him. All three brothers gathered around the chair, looking down on the Mayor with evil smirks.

"Don't you worry, Mayor. Townsville will be nice and pretty once we're done with it" chuckled Brick.

Butch and Boomer snickered and all three of them flew out of the office, leaving the Mayor shrieking for help.

XxXxX

Blossom was using her ice breath to try to extinguish the one of many fires that savaged the buildings of the city. The ice melted and turned into water, calming down the flames. Buttercup was evacuating the building as quickly as she could, Bubbles helping her.

But they were getting tired fast. And there was still so much to be done.

Buttercup and Bubbles flew into the sky and joined Blossom. "The building is empty!" yelled Buttercup over the noise of the city. "We need to go see the mayor now, we can't waste anymore time"

Blossom's shoulders sunk as she breathed heavily. She nodded weakly as she followed behind her sisters.

They were beginning to approach the mayor's office and already they could see the aftermath of the Rowdyruff Boys. Seeing that the window was smashed, they quickly entered.

"Mayor!" shrieked Bubbles as they all saw him on the floor, constricted to a chair.

"Girls! Thank goodness you've arrived!" he cried out.

Blossom and Buttercup grabbed him and pulled him upright as they began to untie him. Bubbles began asking questions.

"How long have you been like this?" she asked first.

"Not too long. I'd say maybe twenty minutes" he replied.

"Did they say they wanted anything from you?" asked Buttercup.

The Mayor shook his head. "It was very random! Here I was, finishing some paper work that was due tomorrow, and suddenly the trio burst into the office from the window and began destroying everything in sight! It was treacherous!" he told.

Blossom stayed silent as her sisters continued to ask questions. Her head was too foggy to think straight. Her only concern at the moment was to just find Brick.

The Mayor was set free from the chair and the three sisters were now preparing to leave.

"Nothing makes sense at the moment, so our only option right now is to just find them" said Bubbles.

The Mayor nodded in agreement. "Please stop them. Who knows what they could be doing at this very moment" he said in a low voice.

And with that, the three girls set off into the city in search of the Rowdyruff Boys.

XxXxX

Brick, Butch, and Boomer were all perched up high on a building, looking down at the destruction they had caused. Pleased expressions rested on Butch and Boomer. However, their leader had yet to be satisfied.

"We still have more work to do boys," quipped Brick as his brothers turned their faces to him "there's still much to do"

Boomer frowned while Butch looked down at the city. "What more can we do?" thought Boomer aloud.

Brick's eyes bore into his Boomer's. "I want this entire city in flames" he hissed.

Boomer dismissed his brother's vicious glare. "What is the matter with you? You haven't been doing anything but sneaking out of the house late at night and barely talking, and should I even mention that less than twenty four hours ago, you were saying you wanted to change? Now you want to destroy everything in your path?!" screamed Boomer in pure anger.

Both Brick and Butch stared at him with wide eyes. Neither of them had heard him talk like this before. There was a large pause between them but they didn't dare interrupt Boomer.

"You're keeping something from us, I just know it. And whatever it is, it's messing you up real good" he said in a lower tone. He walked up to Brick so he was inches away from him. His blue eyes were ablaze and Brick would never admit it, but he looked terrifying at the moment.

"Before you even considering telling me what to do again, you get your situation fixed" he spat right in his face.

And in two seconds, he took off into the sky, back to his home. Brick stood frozen, Boomer's words sinking in. He gave a shaky scoff, trying to brush it off.

"What an idiot," he said "how dare he tell me what I need to do?"

His gaze was averted to Butch's, who was walking towards the edge of the building. Ready to take off.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?" yelled Brick as he followed after his brother.

Butch looked over his shoulder. "He's right. You have some serious issues going on" was all he said and flew high into the sky.

"HEY! GET BACK HERE!" hollered Brick, frustration and panic swelling up inside of him.

But it was no use. He was now completely alone.

He roared furiously, shooting lasers in every direction. He really was messed up. Nothing was making sense. Nothing was going the way he planned. No one was on his side. Millions of questions buzzed in his head accompanied by these awful emotions brewing inside of him. He desperately wished for everything to go back to the way they used to be.

Yet, these past weeks, with Blossom, had been the best moments of his life. Words could not explain how happy he had been and how good it felt to be with her.

It made him weak and it corrupted him in so many ways.

And when he heard his name in a tiny, crushed voice, he wished he never looked back. He should have bolted in the opposite direction.

Because a pair of pink eyes pierced into his very soul, shattering his heart. The wall of security he had managed to put up to protect him from the emotions that this girl had sparked inside of him began deteriorating by the second.