Desperately pacing up and down the living room, Professor John Utonium was on the phone with the mayor and Ms Bellum frantic about where his girls had gone. Witnesses, including the firemen Bubbles had rescued, had reported the girls being kidnapped and taken by apparently three other girls with the same powers. No doubt the girls Wendy and the boys were trying to warn them about.

"Did anyone see where they went? Any clues left behind?" the Professor desperately asked.

"I'm sorry John but at the moment the police haven't found anything of the sort. We'll keep you posted if anything comes up within seconds. Just try to stay calm" Ms Bellum advised over the phone as the Professor continued to pace around, deciding it was best to do so.

"Yes yes alright, I'll try to keep calm, just let me know the instant anything comes up okay?" He hung up and there was a brief few seconds where he had no idea what to do in finding his daughters. Until something hopeful literally crashed through his front door in the form of three other super powered kids.

The Professor ducked and glanced up at three boys floating there in his living room. "Professor Utonium?" said the red boy looking down at him.

"Brick? Boys? What are you doing here-?"

"We heard what happened. How the girls have been taken, by those three other kids" Boomer blurted out.

"Our mom has been taken too, and believe they're on the offshore prison island" informed Brick as the Professor dusted himself off.

"Wendy's gone too? What makes you think they're on that island?"

Brick proceeded to explain all the evidence they had that concluded them to believe Wendy and the girls were at said location. "If you think about it, it all makes sense. Where else would they get such a supply of Duranium from?"

"You're absolutely positive that's where they are?"

"It's the most likely conclusion" said Butch.

"Alright, you obviously came to me for a reason, what do you need me to do?" asked the Professor. "I'll help you as long as it gets my girls and your mother back."

"Take this earpiece and stay in touch with us. We have to have someone back on the mainland in case we need anything" the red ruff handed him the piece.

"What about chief Mccoy?" the Professor inquired.

"Him too, but we figured we needed a scientist like mom, just in case."

Something about that statement made the Professor feel uneasy, but it didn't deter him and placed in the ear piece as the boys flew out. "Inform me about the girls as soon as you find them okay!" he called out as they zoomed off, and headed immediately to his computer.

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Constantly slamming into the bars of the Duranium cage over and over, hardly making a single dent in it at all, Blossom was desperately trying to break her and her sisters free at any cost, to avoid being experimented on like lab rats.

Buttercup had tried earlier, and even she couldn't break those bars, nor the roof or floor of the cage. Bubbles was just huddled up in the corner of the cage, hugging her knees to her chest not saying word.

Heat vision, tornado generation, super strength, not even Blossom's ice breath would work as the bars were heated. "C'mon. Just break already!" she said in a very half hearted tone.

"Forget it Bloss, you've tried, we've tried, there isn't anyway to get out of this" Buttercup advised in a defeated voice.

"But we can't just- we-, Bubbles!" the pink puff flew over to her blue sister. "Use your sonic scream on the bars, or something, or anything!"

However the normally cheery Powerpuff simply buried part of her face into her knees and answered "What's the point? We're only gonna get defeated by the Powerpunk girls anyway."

"C'mon we can take 'em, we have to!" Blossom desperately tried to rally her sisters.

"They have antidote X Blossom, we'll just lose" Bubbles dismissed again.

"Not if we form a plan of some sort!"

"Ha, Plan" the blonde mocked. "It was your planning and leadership that got us into this mess in the first place."

"I didn't know this would happen" Blossom defended.

"You were so blinded by your prejudice of the boys, and so suspicious that they were evil, you ignored all the warnings they were trying to give us about these girls" Bubbles painfully and truthfully told her. "If you had just listened we wouldn't be in this mess!"

"I didn't think the boys had changed" Blossom said quietly.

"No, you didn't, despite all the evidence saying otherwise!" the blue girl threw her arms in the air letting go of her knees. "Not all those crimes they solved! Not refusing to fight us when they met us again! Not the fact that I was meeting up with them for months and didn't harm me at all! No, nothing would persuade you would it! It was all, 'I'm leader and I know what's best for us'."

"Why, why did you keep meeting with the boys Bubbles?" asked Blossom genuinely wanting to know putting a hand on her other arm. "I get that you wanted to help them at first when they were starving and homeless and such, but when they finally had a home, why did you keep going back?"

"Because I saw that they were changing. Because I genuinely had fun with them. They even helped me Blossom. Butch showed me so many martial arts moves and attacks,"

"So that's where you learned those moves from" Buttercup interjected.

"And Brick helped me with my homework and grades in general, so many times when you refused to" the ranting Bubbles continued.

"Why did I refuse to?" Blossom couldn't remember.

"Because you were too busy trying to prove that they were evil!" exclaimed the blonde standing up. "It even got to the point where you were believing anything the media were saying about them, just to confirm your own bias. You didn't bother finding the boys and hearing what they had to say themselves, and when you finally did you just ignored it. You didn't bother to look at all the crime happening in Founders, and how much they helped to stop it, you even ignored Mrs Innlost! One of the most genuine people I've ever met! No, you just wanted to be some sort of hero and wouldn't accept opposing opinions!"

"I wasn't trying to be 'some sort of hero', I was genuinely concerned for the town" defended Blossom.

"It may have come from a good place, but the way you went about it was just so backwards! Look where we are now Blossom! If you had just listened we would've defeated those Powerpunk girls by now!" Bubbles had gotten everything she had been wanting to say off her chest now, and believe me she did not like shouting at her sister, but she had just been so unbearable the past few weeks that it was hard not to. "You even froze me Blossom." She said that final part quietly, before turning around and sitting back down again hugging her knees, her back to her redhead.

Blossom didn't have anything else to argue. It had come to her, Bubbles was right. And she, she was so wrong. Everything her blue sister had said, it was the truth. The hard truth. The Rowdyruff boys had been innocent this whole time. And now she had gotten her sisters into something that they might not be able to get out of this time, and it was all because she didn't listen, because of her own bias, for her own ego. "Bubbles," she tried to say shakingly. "I'm, i'm sorry, I didn't want-, I didn't mean for-, oh," she started to sniff. "I, I was so wrong." The pink Powerpuff didn't hold it in anymore, she sat with her back against the bars and began to cry into her stubbed hands. There was nothing else she could do now.

She was so sure though. At first the thought of three villains returning after being released from prison just spelled trouble. Every time one of their usual enemies was released they started committing crimes again in less than a week. And that first news report she watched about them which said they were a part of a riot, she just blindly assumed that was true. In fact the media had fueled a lot of her own bias, and she didn't even bother to investigate further into what the boys were doing other than false accusations about them. She wondered why she couldn't get any real evidence on them. But she just let her own moral superiority take over and wouldn't go back on it, until now of course.

As the pink girl continued to sob, Bubbles was silently crying into her knees too, facing the bars. She did hear her sister, but there was no point trying to talk to her after her own outburst. Though it was hard not to. Buttercup didn't say anything either and just hopelessly sat there in silence.

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Half an hour had passed, and Blossom had pretty much drained both her tear ducts by now. Bubbles was still quietly sniffing into her knees. All three were still silent, and each were wondering if Mrs Innlost in the other room was okay. Brat had been guarding them for a bit now, though she eventually fell asleep due to boredom. It wasn't long however before she woke up again and proceeded to do what she did before, taunt the puffs.

"Well it shouldn't be long now until Ian wants to experiment on you, good luck surviving by the way."

None of the Powerpuffs could be bothered to respond at this point.

"He promised Mrs Innlost her freedom if she ever decides to help, and to leave her boys alone as well. Just think though, maybe we can even convince them to join us?" Brat wondered. "I do like the idea of me and that blond boy."

Blossom had noticed her blue sister had stopped sniffing, and the leader puff turned to her captor. "And, what do you mean by that?"

"If we can convince those ruffs to go back to their old ways, there's no doubt that blue boy would instantly fall for me, I mean look at me" she brushed one of her long pigtails. "We practically go hand in hand."

Bubbles had let go of her knees and Blossom looked back and forth at her and Brat. "Go on" she persisted.

"We'll be floating holding hands even, once you three are dead and this whole thing is over…"

Blossom covered her ears.

"...it'll be perfect-" A sudden sonic blast broke through the cage and knocked the Powerpunk puff girl back and few yards, completely taking her by surprise. The blonde Powerpuff girl flew out of the now broken cage facing her counterpart.

"She could've done that this whole time?" Buttercup whispered uncovering her own ears.

"Don't you dare lay one of your stubby little hands on Boomie!" threatened Bubbles with unusual fierceness.

"Boomie-? Oh bring it on sister, I see what's going on here." Brat looked at her opponent and then at the broken cage. 'Great' she thought. 'Berserk isn't gonna like this.' She didn't have time to act on it now though as she was quickly attacked with beams of heat vision and sudden punch swings.

Whilst the two blues were going at it, Blossom and Buttercup flew out the cage and looked around knowing they didn't have a lot of time. "What do we do?"

"Grab those Duranium bars from the cage, fend off the girls with Bubbles for as long as you can" Blossom instructed.

"What are you gonna do?" questioned Buttercup confused.

"I'm going to find some way to contact people back on the mainland, and hopefully I'll find Mrs Innlost too."

The girl sped off as Buttercup did as she was ordered, joining Bubbles in some sort of effort to defend themselves in this desperate situation. "Grab a bar Bubbs," she advised and readied for battle.

Having heard the commotion, Berserk and Brute entered the large room where the puffs were supposed to be held. "Brat! What's going on? How the hell did they get free?" demanded the leader punk clearly frustrated.

"It wasn't my fault! They-, well they-, they tricked me!" Brat was suddenly hit over the head by her counterpart cutting her off.

Berserk groaned and put her stubbed hand on where her nose would've been. "And where's the pink one?"

"That's not for you to worry about" Buttercup interjected as she threw and lobbed pieces of metal at the punks forcing them to dodge it.

"Worry about Blossom in a minute, incapacitate these two first" Berserk instructed her green punk rock like sister as they prepared to fight.

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In the room nearby that contained all the medical and experimental equipment intended for the Powerpuff girls, Ian who was on a laptop working on something, and Wendy who was close by next to another table, very very reluctantly preparing a set of syringes, both heard the banging and clashing of metal going on in the other room.

Ian looked up, and didn't say a word but instead just stared at the wall as if he was watching something happen, which of course, he was. There was chemical X inside him too. He could see everything going on through that wall. "Continue preparing that equipment, I just have to quickly deal with something."

The scientist woman watched him go, fully making sure he was out of the door. Then taking a brief look for any cameras, which there were none of, she stepped over to the unattended laptop and quietly began typing, taking sharp glances to the door occasionally, easily hacking into the computer and making sure she left it in the way that Ian had.

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The half dead leader of the Powerpunks stepped into the room the puffs were supposed to be held in, only to find a broken cage and his three henchgirls fighting two of their captives. Shaking his head and putting his finger and thumb on the bridge of his nose, he started clenched his other fist and yelled up to his girls. "Berserk! Brat! Stop fighting them, go and find the other one. Brute stay with me"

"But Ian, won't they-?" two of them tried to speak up.

"Do as I say" he pointed and they immediately stopped fighting the two Powerpuff girls and floated in the direction he pointed in. Once they were gone, the decaying man looked up at the blue and green supergirls, whom were both holding duranium bars. Brute still floating by his side.

"What's this? Are you actually going to try and talk to us or something? Ha!" Buttercup with super speed toward him holding the bar to strike.

"Wait Buttercup!" Bubbles shouted to stop her sister.

But Buttercup reached her intended target, and instead of getting a hit, she was punched back with remarkable super strength when Ian swiftly swung his arm and socked her. She hit a wall on the other side of the room and slowly gathered back her strength. The puffs remembered, Ian supposedly had chemical X inside him too.

He shouldn't be too tough of a fight right? Bubbles and Buttercup summed up all the strength still within them and went head to head against the half corpse chemical X man.

This fight proved to be futile. Although he didn't fly, all Ian had to do in order to dodge their attacks was simply side step out of their way. He did so with such speed neither Bubbles or Buttercup could get a hit on him. And when they each least suspected, he managed to get another hit on the both of them. Striking them both with two swift punches.

"Brute, take care of your counterpart" ordered Ian and the green punk nodded, and zoomed toward Buttercup, whom barely still had some energy to spare, engaging the punk in more hand to hand combat.

Bubbles, stumbling to her feet, attempted to fly circles around Ian in order to possibly daze or confuse him. But with a dead on hit with his heat vision, the colour of which was jet black, Ian managed to hit the blue girl to the floor, and with a blast of energy from his hands, knocked her out completely.

Buttercup like before was struggling intensely to keep up with Brute. The puff was using too wide of swings, which exposed herself to attacks and punches, and it wasn't long before Brute got the best of her. Pulling out another tranquilizer syringe, the decaying boss came over and injected it into the Powerpuff.

"Alright, now just the other one."

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Breaking into what seemed to be an old security room, Blossom looked all around at the walls for something, until she spotted the computers and control panels. 'Great! Hopefully I can message for help.'

Normally she could just fly back to the mainland, but that would mean having to leave her sisters and Mrs Innlost behind. Surprised that the computers still worked, she tried and opened up any programme that could possibly help her communicate back with Townsville or the Professor. Oh how worried he must be now.

'C'mon there must be something here. Radio? Email? Skype even?' But alas there was nothing. These computers were mainly just for prison surveillance back when it was open. She realised that when she clicked on a file that had all the old archive footage stored away. But something caught her eye when she looked back through the dates of the videos. There was old footage of when the Rowdyruffs themselves were inmates of this prison. And one video in particular really got her attention.

By the thumbnail it looked as if the three boys were in the prison infirmary, but the heart wrenching thing was, only Brick seemed to be conscious, talking to another prisoner. Then he looked over to see his two brothers lying on beds next to him, and upon seeing what they looked like then, even made the pink puff recoil and fly back a bit in horror.

She could see in the footage that not only Brick but Boomer and Butch as well were covered in bruises and blood. With black eyes and scars all over. She let out a small gasp at the absolute horrific state these boys had been beaten to. Looked as if so it was done with duranium bars.

And then she watched her counterpart on the screen, almost having the same reaction as she was having now, but with far more guilt on his face. Blossom could see it all now, she was witnessing Brick's heart shatter into pieces upon seeing his brothers like that. And it wasn't just his heart, this was the moment where any chance of him being a kid anymore was completely gone. The very moment that robbed him of all joy, fun, and transformed him into the Brick she met just before she was captured.

This explains it all, as she watched him cry over his unconscious brothers, knowing that he must've taken full blame on himself for this. It's why he didn't want them committing anymore crimes. Why they swore off the criminal life as a whole. Why Brick seemed so much more mature now. Why he was so different to the Brick she thought she knew.

They had it so terrible, so abhorrent, and all they wanted to do was to be good. To actually fight crime in Founders city, to live a somewhat normal childhood with their loving mother. They even tried her about the punks, and befriended Bubbles. And Blossom disregarded anything they tried to say, and turned the whole town against them and ran them out. She exiled three innocent little boys who were only trying to help them. The image on the screen wasn't helping her hold back any tears of guilt. She let them flow, silently this time, as it felt like a rope was being tightened around her chest.

Suddenly the wall was smashed open, and the pink and blue punk floated in finally having found her. "X-ray vision never fails" smirked Berserk.

Blossom wiped the tears and put up her fists. "What happened to Bubbles and Buttercup?" she demanded.

"Oh Ian took care of them. What's the matter? Finally coming to terms that your little goody two-shoes isn't always right?" mocked Berserk glancing at the computer screen and then back at her.

Blossom tried to defend herself in the ensuing fight, and tried everything to change the inevitable defeat, but when she flew out the surveillance room in an attempt to flee, she was caught by surprise and knocked out cold when Ian from nowhere struck her in the head with a duranium bar.

"That's all of them recaptured, do not let this happen again" Ian warned throwing down the bar.

"Should we rebuild the cage?" Brute inquired whilst carrying the other two unconscious puffs.

Looking over the three puff captives, the rotting chemical X boss simply waved his peeling hand and dismissed "No. Bring them to the cage in the room with the equipment in instead. It's almost ready anyway."

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Wendy heard the footsteps approaching the door, and hoped to god her captors weren't using their x-ray vision. Making sure she left the laptop as Ian left it, she quickly resumed in her task of preparing the experimental needles as if she never left it.

And of course, in came Ian as well as his three henchgirls flying behind him. But the scientist caught a gasp in her throat when she laid eyes on the other captives. Bruised and unconscious. Is this what Ian went out to do?

She stared in horror as the Powerpuff girls were thrown into a cage on a table closeby, and looked over all the needles she had just prepared. The scientist even silently prayed, that she didn't have to use them. Oh god where were her sons? 'Oh boys where are you?'

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On the very shore of the island, with the violent waves crashing against the rocks, three small figures climbed out of the water and onto the land, shaking themselves dry.

"Why did we fly underwater again?" Butch questioned rinsing his hair.

"They'd see us coming in the air. Don't worry, we were going too fast for the cold of the water to affect us" Brick shook his hat and slapped it back on his head. "Okay" he looked over the old prison that they all had nightmares about, ever since the day they were originally released. "I can see which room they're in. Mom and the girls."

"Are they alright?" asked Boomer, worry in his voice.

"Mom seems fine, but the girls, eesh, don't look so good." The ruff leader turned to his brothers. "They don't we're here. Let's sneak our way in, it'll be more efficient that way."

"Surely the vents are the best choice right?" Boomer flew up immediately to grab the vent grate, but his brother saw what he was doing and tried to warn:

"Wait no Boomer, the grates were electrified!"

But the blue ruff had already touched it and, nothing happened. He quickly pulled his arm away. "Right I remember, they electrified the grates, didn't they?" he touched it again and still nothing happened. "Surely Ian would've been using it?"

"Well for whatever reason he hasn't. Now c'mon" Butch ushered. "Let's get this over with."

So I'm back everyone. I know, I'm really sorry for being away for so long, haven't updated in over a month and a half. Which is kinda bad because this story only has about two more (maybe three) chapters left to go. I've been really busy recently and there's also a christmas fic i'm working on and trying to finish (Not Powerpuff girls) But yeah I've finally managed to finish this chapter and hopefully I'll be able to get the final few out soon. Another apology to you guys, you've all been so great with feedback and a big motivator. Half the reason I really wanna finish this story is for you. Thanks to reviewers, favourites and followers.

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