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"Hello there" says the dark-haired man, gazing at her through the bars. He had dark eyes that held a kind of kindness that was foreign to Blossom. Out of instinct, she backed away from him. His smile faltered and a new, even softer look painted his face. He held his hands up and cooed gently. "No, no, no, it's alright! I won't hurt you." He knelt down in front of the bars and smiled. "Can you tell me your name?"

His eyes were trained on Blossom, but it was one of her sisters who answered him first. She had been hiding herself in one of the corners of the high-tech cell, along with her other sister who'd been acting as a shield towards her "youngest" sister against the strange gaze of the ever stranger man. The little one slowly made her way around her sisters. She stopped a few feet away from the bars. The dress she wore was identical to that of her sisters, only each ones had a different colored "X" on the front. Hers was blue. She wiped her nose and staring at the crouching man with her baby blue eyes.

"Bubbles" she said softly. Suddenly shy, she turned her attention to her feet.

A slow, beaming smile came from the man. He quickly stood up and signaled to one of the guards. The laser-bars flickered away and he stepped inside. Blossom narrowed her eyes and Buttercup gave an angry growl. Poor Bubbles stumbled back, trying to get away, but the man reached out and grabbed her hand. His grasp was so gentle, she paused. The man once again came down on his knee.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, my dear. My name is Prof. John Utonium."

After awhile, Buttercup eventually moved to join her sister. Blossom, however, remained where she was. She was very smart, and being as smart as she was, she had already guessed why this man, this Professor, was here. The thought sung sweetly in her mind and threatened to overtake her, but she refused.

She couldn't leave.

'Not without-'

She raced down the halls of their prison, cursing the narrow space around her that limited her speed as she went. The entrance to the lower level of the vicinity approached, an black iron door with a high-tech security lock. With calculating swiftness, she tapped in the over-ride code and let herself in. She could already hear the guards waking up down the hall she'd came from. She had little time before they realized the security cameras weren't working, realized she was missing. She sped through the dark place, slowing only when she reached what she'd been searching for. She could hear them stirring behind the special wall that hid them; no doubt they'd woken up when they'd heard her approaching. She blinked her eyes twice, switching her regular eyesight to a higher level so she could see through the hard substance of the wall and find its weakness. Finding it, she pounded her fist against it until it started to give. She blinked as the alarms went off, startling her for a minute. She took five steps away from the wall, then rushed forward, running straight through it and into the secret room it held.

It was even darker in there than outside. The alarms were quieted within the sound-proof walls. A sudden voice to her far right made her jump.

"Blossom?" the boy with black hair and a black X under his ear mumbled sleepily, rubbing his face. Sleeping on the second level of the 3-bed bunk bed, he swung his legs over the side to look at the girl. On the bunk below him, an azure blue eye peeked out from underneath a blanket. "What are you doing-"

Blossom flew over to the boy and took his shoulders in her grasp."Where is he? Where's-"

"Hey"

Blossom looked up. On the very top bunk sat a very tired, grumpy looking boy who was currently shoving his bright red hair into a dark red cap.

"What are you idiots- ah!" Blossom flung herself at him, nearly throwing him off the bed in the process. He muttered curses and steadied himself as her arms circled around his neck. After a moment, he placed his hands on her shoulders and pushed her away a little. "What are you doing here? Do you know how much trouble you're going to be in when-" He stopped when he saw the tears trailing down her cheeks. Without a word, he backed up and tugged her over so that she was sitting on the bed with him.

Blossom began to sob uncontrollably. "He's coming to take us away! Utonium's taking us away and we'll never come back!"

"Isn't that a good thing?" inquired the dark haired boy, who was now floating beside them. The boy with the red cap threw his rock-hard pillow at him, making him crash to the floor next to where his blonde brother stood watching the top bunk.

"Shut up!" growled the red-headed boy. He turned back to the girl in front of him.

"You dummy," he said softly, whipping her tears away gently. "You're not going anywhere." He reached foreword and drew her to him. Blossom cried into his well-worn, over-sized maroon shirt, her fingers clutching the fabric.

"I won't let anyone take you from me."

"It's for the best, sweetheart." Professor Utonium tries to lead her away, towards the door. If she goes through that door, she knows she'll never see the boy again.

"No!" she screams loudly, fighting against the drugs running through her veins, weakening her from using her powers. Her screams echo through each wall, each hall, and in a second, the boy with the red cap is there. Fighting through the guards and security machines, he's calling out to her. Over. And over. And over.

"Don't forget me! Don't you dare forget me, Pinks! Do you hear me!"

"Do you hear me? Come back to me! Don't leave me!"

"Come back! Come back!"

When he's close enough to tug off her ribbon, her voice comes back to her. The Professor picks her up around the waist in attempt to hurry her to the door, but she still reaches back for her boy. Their fingers just brush against each other before he's shot down.

Bang!

"Brick-kun!"

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